6.2 Local best practices & settings:

Registration database: We had so many people interested in the IBT, that at the time of writing, we have about 400 registered potential applicants in our bioinformatics training database, coming from different universities, career status, and educational backgrounds. 
Teaching assistants - IBT alumni: During the planning for the IBT 2017 course, we came up with the idea of using IBT 2016 alumni best participants as teaching assistants for the IBT 2017. This turned out to be a great gesture as it improved help the IBT 2017 students as the IBT alumni gave them advice as they have gone through this phase.
Local Classes Logistics and Planning: Compare to IBT 2016 course intake of only 22 participants, we were successful to intake 73 participants for IBT 2017. There were many issues that support us to reach this target number. We talked to the librarian of the Main Library to use the computer laboratory that accommodated 40 course participants, while 33 were accommodated at the CBSB. 
Class diversity: course participants with different expertise and research interests.