1. NUB2 (2nd Norwich Unseminar in Bioinformatics) Thursday 1st October 2015 TGAC, Norwich, UK

2. a group of scientists and non-scientists interested in bioinformatics and exploring different ways of collaborating

3. Lego1

4. Lego1 - building ~4 groups, max 8 per group, ideally people you don’t know (well) - tables are labelled groups A, B, C, D, write your name on the same side of the paper with the group label on it briefly introduce yourselves within your group (name, where you work) take bricks as you need them from the counter - use smaller boxes to bring them to your tables build a 3 storey house, build each storey separately, don’t join them together, different storeys fitting together well both structurally and aesthetically (10/15 min) when done, write together a short description of your design on the group label sheet, so that someone else could follow and replicate it

5. Lego1 - comparing & sharing pass your top storey to one group A->B, B->C, C->D, D->A pass your middle storey to another B->A, C->B, D->C, A->D connect your ground storey to the other two do you now have a house that fits together well structurally and aesthetically? put your storeys back together again, leave them with your spec - we may come back to them later

6. Lego1 - comparing & sharing pass your top storey to one group A->B, B->C, C->D, D->E, E->A pass your middle storey to another B->A, C->B, D->C, E->D, A->E connect your ground storey to the other two do you now have a house that fits together well structurally and aesthetically? put your storeys back together again, leave them with your spec - we may come back to them later

7. Lego1 - links to Open Data if we had discussed and agreed together a specification for building houses, when sharing components, they would have fit together better this would have taken quite a long time! providing a clear, standard-compliant, set of open instructions (e.g. lego construction kit instructions) would mean anyone could easily build something that would fit your house you got some practice writing a specification one way to get storeys made to different specifications to fit together could have been to build an adaptor

8. Open Space Technology (OST)

9. OST talk with your neighbours about Open Data - what questions/issues linked to it would you like to discuss? did a topic come up, that you’d like to lead a discussion on? Share it with the group, then stand to one side of the room then…

10. OST join the person whose pitched discussion topic you find most interesting - feel free to change between topics (law of two feet) OST works is good for building collaborations and produce tangible outcomes - but we use it here, rather, to give you space to have the conversations you’re most interested in having, not to build something specific - so we’re not asking you to take notes on discussions

11. Lego2

12. Lego2 - building re-form groups from earlier, return to your spec and house pass your spec to another group, try and rebuild your middle storey to fit the spec give to you by another group pass specs: A->B, B->C, C->D, D->A pass your remodelled middle storey to the group whose spec you received pass middle storeys: B->A, C->B, D->C, A->D

13. Lego2 - building re-form groups from earlier, return to your spec and house pass your spec to another group, try and rebuild your middle storey to fit the spec give to you by another group pass specs: A->B, B->C, C->D, D->E, E->A pass your remodelled middle storey to the group whose spec you received pass middle storeys: B->A, C->B, D->C, E->D, A->E

14. Lego2 - reflection hopefully the middle storeys fit together better than the first time we tried this - i.e. when you have a spec to work to you got practice working with someone else’s spec and spent some more time with the Lego

15. Reflection and close

16. Reflection discuss with your neighbour what (if anything) you enjoyed, learned, or found useful about the session if you’d like to share any of these thoughts with the full group, we’ve got 5 minutes to hear from you

17. Thanks! TGAC and EMBO Andy and Toby you Helen and Matt