Within the (Home) Training Days series, GC Plus offers compact online workshops for doctoral researchers of all disciplines at the UDE. These workshops allow you to further develop your personal and academic skills either through face-to-face coaching or remotely.
Host: GC Plus
Venue: Varies between in-person or online training
Language: English or German (as indicated by the workshops' titles)
Registration: Via GCPlus website, on a quarterly basis.

* Please note: For members of BIOME's Clinical Research core, these three workshops are part of the regular lecture curriculum.

Learn how to do modern reproducible data science with Snakemake and rapidly communicate your results with Datavzrd. The Snakemake workflow management system is a tool to create reproducible and scalable data analyses. Workflows are described via a human readable, Python based language. They can be seamlessly scaled to server, cluster, grid and cloud environments, without the need to modify the workflow definition. Snakemake workflows can entail a description of required software, which will be automatically deployed to any execution environment. Finally, Snakemake can be used to automatically generate rich interactive visual reports that contain results together data provenance information. These reports can be easily shared with collaborators (e.g. via email) and only require a web browser for viewing. With over 1 million downloads and on average more than 14 new citations per week in 2025, Snakemake is a widely used and accepted standard for reproducible data science that has powered numerous high impact publications.
Datavzrd turns the large tables that scientific analyses usually end up with (e.g. variant calls or differential expression results) into interactive visual reports. Instead of scrolling through plain spreadsheets, collaborators can search, filter and explore the data on their own, with nothing more than a web browser. Individual columns can easily be turned into heatmaps, various plots or fully custom visualizations, values can link out to external resources, and related tables can be connected to each other. All of this requires no code, only a short and human readable YAML configuration. Reports are self-contained HTML files that can be easily shared (e.g. via email) or attached to a publication as supplementary material, allowing readers and reviewers to explore the data just as interactively as the researchers themselves. Finally, Datavzrd can be run directly from Snakemake, so that reports are regenerated automatically and stay reproducible whenever the analysis changes. With 1.7 million downloads on conda-forge and almost 700 stars on GitHub, Datavzrd is a widely used tool for the interactive communication of tabular data.
Target audience: Primarily BIOME and UKE/UDE members
Hosts and trainers: Johannes Köster and Felix Wiegand 
Venue: Universitätsklinikum Essen, MFZ, Room 0.019
Language: English
Participants: 40