The ELIXIR Training Platform ran a survey in 2019 to identify potential
gaps in training courses. Materials about containers and workflow
pipelines turned out to be one of the major identified gaps.
The aim of
the hackathon is to develop training materials and relevant use-cases,
freely available and useful for:
1) organizing courses on the topic and
2) self-learning.
There is a plethora of technologies
that can be used regarding containers and workflow pipelines, however
with recent increase in the popularity of Docker and Singularity
containers and Nextflow pipelines, these will be discussed at the hackathon.