About this site

This website this for the running of TeSS, ELIXIR’s training platform. Including development documentation, resources and meetings.

About TeSS

One of the goals of ELIXIR (Europe’s distributed infrastructure for life-science data) is to train research scientists to better use available computational infrastructures to address critical research questions. This requires access both to face-to-face training opportunities and to disparate training materials and resources, currently dispersed across Europe.

TeSS is ELIXIR’s training platform, providing a one-stop shop for trainersand trainees to discover online information and content, including training materials, events and interactive tutorials. For ELIXIR Nodes, TeSS provides opportunities to promote training events and news, and to contribute to a growing catalogue of materials; for trainers, the portal offers an environment for sharing materials and event information; for trainees, it offers a convenient gateway via which to identify relevant training events and resources, and to perform specific, guided analysis tasks via customised training workflows.

The mTeSS-X Project (Multi-space Training e-Support System with eXchange) overcomes the fragmentation of training resources across Research Infrastructures and the European Science Clusters. The project aims to enhance existing TeSS-based training registries or catalogues like ELIXIR TeSS (life sciences) and PaN-Training (photon and neutron) by building an aggregator for these and similar platforms.

Code of conduct

This project has a Code of Conduct to ensure interactions are friendly, respectful and inclusive. You can contact <tess-support+coc@googlegroups.com> if you have any concerns or questions.

Contact Us

Email: tess-support@googlegroups.com

TeSS Club Meeting

Discussions on TeSS upcoming developments, feature requests, suggestions, and related activities.

When: Every two weeks @ 9:00 GMT / 10:00 CET on a Tuesday

Meeting minutes and connection details https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nLa6ye6kYBuE0UJgRoqdSakZP94vb2RgQZssyvRCXig/edit?tab=t.0

Slack

Join us on the ELIXIR Workspace #tess_club to collaborate with the ELIXIR TeSS community.
Join us on the TeSS Platform Slack space to collaborate with the wider community of TeSS outside of ELIXIR.

Mailing List

TESS-CLUB@LISTSERV.MANCHESTER.AC.UK

Project Resources

TeSS Deployments

TeSS https://tess.elixir-europe.org
TeSS testing/sandbox server https://dev.tess.elixir-europe.org

Source Code

TeSS https://github.com/ElixirTeSS/TeSS
TeSS Scrapers https://github.com/ElixirTeSS/TeSS_scrapers
TeSS Widgets https://github.com/ElixirTeSS/TeSS_widgets

Documentation

TeSS Platform Documentation https://elixirtess.github.io/docs/
TeSS, how can I help you? (ELIXIR Training Platform) https://elixir-europe-training.github.io/ELIXIR-TrP-TeSS/
Meeting Minutes https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GF3sd0Sx6ifFKluwxBmzpBy1iqx94FXoj4Td0ykq03Y
TeSS Google Support Group https://groups.google.com/g/tess-support
Training Platform Task 3 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i_cJVMGvLzTSmBPFq79BlyVerUs4aTvi_ZIcCgbxd7c
UX Report https://www.dropbox.com/s/3uqnrhgdaa6nqjt/nancy_report_V6.pdf?dl=0

External Resources

Bioschemas

Bioschemas Website https://bioschemas.org/
Data Discovery Engine (DDE) Markup Generator https://discovery.biothings.io/markup-generator
Bioschemas Generator (legacy) http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/SWeL/BioschemasGenerator

FAIR Resources

How to FAIR https://www.howtofair.dk
10 Simple rules https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7241697

ELIXIR Europe / Nodes

Funding

The authors acknowledge the OSCARS project, which has received funding from the European Commission’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101129751

BioFAIR Short Term Funding Award GP312

European Commission, Horizon 2020 Research Infrastructures programme (ELIXIR-EXCELERATE, grant agreement number 676559);

ELIXIR Implementation Study (Registry Integration from a User Perspective);

ELIXIR Implementation Study (Learning Paths).

BBSRC UK (Delivering ELIXIR-UK grant, grant agreement numbers BB/L005050/1 & BB/L005069/1).

Acknowledgements

The TeSS team would like to acknowledge the help of a number of groups and individuals, and thank them for useful discussions, feedback and assistance in developing TeSS - to name but a few:

ELIXIR technical staff and coordinators from the Hub, in particular Rafael Jimenez, Martin Cook and Premysl Velek
The ELIXIR Training Coordinators group, particularly Celia van Gelder, Patricia Palagi and Gabriella Rustici
The UK structural bioinformatics group, particularly Christine Orengo