This workshop intends to facilitate the training and discourse amongst researchers interested in machine learning using Galaxy. It will be a one-week event, including webinar sessions in which we will introduce machine learning backgrounds and train researchers to use Galaxy for machine learning analysis. Every webinar session will be followed by a self-training day, in which experts will answer questions in a support channel and support on a peer-to-peer basis.

The workshop will include:

Introduction to the Galaxy data analysis platform
Machine learning 101
Regressor (linear, non-linear and ensemble models)
Classifiers (logistic regression, k-nearest neighbours, support vector machines and random forest)
Feature selection methods
Clustering (Hierarchical, K-means and DBSCAN)
Hyper-parameter optimization

The workshops will make use of the European Galaxy server and the Galaxy Training Material. Both will stay accessible and open after the training.

The target audience includes researchers interested in analysing scientific data using machine learning algorithms for classification, regression and clustering tasks. Specifically, we encourage scholars that have begun biological data analysis and are interested to know what is machine learning and how they can use Galaxy for machine learning tasks. While the datasets used during this workshop will be biological and chemical; you will learn universal tools, workflows and a framework applicable to other domains.

Each training is building on-top of each other and should be done in order. We are aware that it might be hard to reserve time during the live webinars, due to homeschooling or other obligations. Therefor the webinars and demonstrations will be recorded and made available to replay them at any time. Moreover, there will be a help and support channel running 24h a day, spanning multiple timezone, to help participants as much as possible to align this workshop with their schedule. Please let us know if you want to participate but facing any other issue.

Agenda: Current version can be found here

Calling platform: GoToWebinar & Slack channel
- Meeting connection details and guideline for call to be circulated in advance to the meeting

Registration deadline: 19 June 2020 (12:00 CEST)

Contact for programme:
Jen Harrow jen.harrow@elixir-europe.org
Bjoern Gruening gruening@informatik.uni-freiburg.de

Machine Learning using Galaxy a webinar / workshop series