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+site: freiburg
+title: 'Training Infrastructure Feedback from Charles Girardot'
+tags: [training, tiaas]
+supporters:
+- galaxy-europe
+- tiaas
+---
+
+
+In early September this year, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) organized a week long course entitled
+[Chromatin Signatures During Differentiation: Integrated Omics](https://www.embl.de/training/events/2019/EPI19-01/index.html). 
+This high-quality course was limited to 16 participants and gathered scientists from all around the world.
+
+The Friday was devoted to data analysis using the Galaxy platform (for the genomics part). We 
+([Genome Biology Computational Support team](http://gbcs.embl.de)) maintain a local Galaxy platform for 
+everyday analysis and we usually use it to run our data analysis trainings but not this time! 
+
+After attending GCC 2019 in Freiburg this year, we wanted to try the new GTN + TIaaS option as it solves (at
+least on paper) a number of issues compared to using our local Galaxy:
+
+* First, we cannot dedicate and reserve resources on our HPC for a training session. TIaaS just offers this. 
+* Second, we used to develop our own training material and this takes a lot (I mean a LOT) of time. 
+Creation of the test data, ensuring that the envisioned data analysis runs on this data, that the tools 
+are available and working properly on our instance etc. GTN with TIaaS on usegalaxy.eu solves all that!
+* Third, our Galaxy instance is not public. This is not an issue for running the training as we 
+are on the same network but this means that external users (i.e. most of the trainees) won't have access to 
+our Galaxy and their work after the training. Using the TIaaS solution completely solves the issue and lets trainees 
+continue self-learning using all the GTN resources. 
+
+## So! How did it go?
+
+Setting up the training took less than 4 hours in total. We followed the 
+[Formation of the Super-Structures on the Inactive X](https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/epigenetics/tutorials/formation_of_super-structures_on_xi/tutorial.html)
+training from Friederike Dündar, Anika Erxleben, Bérénice Batut, Vivek Bhardwaj, Fidel Ramirez and Leily Rabbani. 
+We were allocated more than enough resources so the training went super smooth and we had a great feedback from the trainees. 
+
+Bjoern and the Freibug team were super helpfull and responsive. The combination of the TIaaS and the GTN is just
+wonderful, as anticipated. Really enormous congratulations to all of the Freiburg team to put these services up. 
+
+Jelle Scholtalbers and Charles Girardot
+
+PS: I almost forgot. It is free...
+
+