The GTN infrastructure has been developed in accordance with the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles for training materials (Garcia et al. 2020). Following these principles enables trainers and trainees to find, reuse, adapt, and improve the available tutorials.

By contributing to the GTN, you can be certain that materials are 100% FAIR and compliant with the 10 Simple Rules for FAIR training materials. Every learning resource contributed to the GTN automatically receives:

• Automatic Persistent URLs
• Automatic TeSS registration
• Automatic BioSchemas compliant LD+JSON metadata
• Automatic monthly archival copies on the GTN archive
• Page view statistics via Plausible

We have an open and welcoming collaborative peer-review and curation process as users contribute materials to the GTN.

The GTN is integrated with the ELIXIR Training e-Support System (TeSS), which is a platform for discovering and sharing learning materials and events. Every tutorial, slide deck, event, and learning pathway in the GTN is automatically registered with TeSS, making it easy for users to find and access the materials.

Materials in the GTN are designed to be interactive, engaging, and accessible. Many are additionally designed to reproduce a published analysis from literature, helping document and showcase reproducibility.

Tutorials are designed around rich metadata, every tutorial including extensive metadata that help learners and educators decide if the materials are useful to them:

• Audience
• Difficulty Level
• SMART Learning Objectives
• Key Points
• Pre-requisite materials
• License (always open source!)
• Duration (for teaching)
• and more

Every tutorial is highly structured with both expository information, clearly demarcated hands-on exercises, and then formative assessments to help learners check their understanding.

GTN e-Learning materials are complemented with excellent technical support such as input datasets available on Zenodo, as well as workflows which match the tutorial’s steps. Some tutorials additionally feature recordings from previous times this material was taught. Galaxy tutorials also indicate which public servers can be used for the tutorial, identifying servers which support every tool used in a given learning material.

The GTN started in July of 2015 as a collection of just a handful of Galaxy-specific training materials. A few slides, and a few hands-on tutorials were available covering topics like RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, and other NGS topics.

The GTN is a community-driven project, with contributions from people around the world.

Over time, it has grown to include materials for a wide range of topics, in bioinformatics and beyond! We now cover a range of scientific topics and methodologies.