Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-13-2019

Keywords

JGM

JAX Source

PLoS Comput Biol 2019 Jun 13; 15(6):e1007026

Volume

15

Issue

6

First Page

1007026

Last Page

1007026

ISSN

1553-7358

PMID

31194735

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007026

Grant

CA034196,EB022365

Abstract

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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Open access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License

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