Fostering bioinformatics education through skill development of professors: Big Genomic Data Skills Training for Professors.
Bioinformatics has become an indispensable part of life science over the past 2 decades. However, bioinformatics education is not well integrated at the undergraduate level, especially in liberal arts colleges and regional universities in the United States. One significant obstacle pointed out by th...
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2019-06-01
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| author | Yingqian Ada Zhan Charles Gregory Wray Sandeep Namburi Spencer T Glantz Reinhard Laubenbacher Jeffrey H Chuang |
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| description | Bioinformatics has become an indispensable part of life science over the past 2 decades. However, bioinformatics education is not well integrated at the undergraduate level, especially in liberal arts colleges and regional universities in the United States. One significant obstacle pointed out by the Network for Integrating Bioinformatics into Life Sciences Education is the lack of faculty in the bioinformatics area. Most current life science professors did not acquire bioinformatics analysis skills during their own training. Consequently, a great number of undergraduate and graduate students do not get the chance to learn bioinformatics or computational biology skills within a structured curriculum during their education. To address this gap, we developed a module-based, week-long short course to train small college and regional university professors with essential bioinformatics skills. The bioinformatics modules were built to be adapted by the professor-trainees afterward and used in their own classes. All the course materials can be accessed at https://github.com/TheJacksonLaboratory/JAXBD2K-ShortCourse. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3a75e2ee73c04a9ca0d2cb7a9d34b4a22022-12-21T21:27:32ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS Computational Biology1553-734X1553-73582019-06-01156e100702610.1371/journal.pcbi.1007026Fostering bioinformatics education through skill development of professors: Big Genomic Data Skills Training for Professors.Yingqian Ada ZhanCharles Gregory WraySandeep NamburiSpencer T GlantzReinhard LaubenbacherJeffrey H ChuangBioinformatics has become an indispensable part of life science over the past 2 decades. However, bioinformatics education is not well integrated at the undergraduate level, especially in liberal arts colleges and regional universities in the United States. One significant obstacle pointed out by the Network for Integrating Bioinformatics into Life Sciences Education is the lack of faculty in the bioinformatics area. Most current life science professors did not acquire bioinformatics analysis skills during their own training. Consequently, a great number of undergraduate and graduate students do not get the chance to learn bioinformatics or computational biology skills within a structured curriculum during their education. To address this gap, we developed a module-based, week-long short course to train small college and regional university professors with essential bioinformatics skills. The bioinformatics modules were built to be adapted by the professor-trainees afterward and used in their own classes. All the course materials can be accessed at https://github.com/TheJacksonLaboratory/JAXBD2K-ShortCourse.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007026 |
| spellingShingle | Yingqian Ada Zhan Charles Gregory Wray Sandeep Namburi Spencer T Glantz Reinhard Laubenbacher Jeffrey H Chuang Fostering bioinformatics education through skill development of professors: Big Genomic Data Skills Training for Professors. PLoS Computational Biology |
| title | Fostering bioinformatics education through skill development of professors: Big Genomic Data Skills Training for Professors. |
| title_full | Fostering bioinformatics education through skill development of professors: Big Genomic Data Skills Training for Professors. |
| title_fullStr | Fostering bioinformatics education through skill development of professors: Big Genomic Data Skills Training for Professors. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fostering bioinformatics education through skill development of professors: Big Genomic Data Skills Training for Professors. |
| title_short | Fostering bioinformatics education through skill development of professors: Big Genomic Data Skills Training for Professors. |
| title_sort | fostering bioinformatics education through skill development of professors big genomic data skills training for professors |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007026 |
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