Assessing an effective undergraduate module teaching applied bioinformatics to biology students.

ABSTRACT: Applied bioinformatics skills are becoming ever more indispensable for biologists, yet incorporation of these skills into the undergraduate biology curriculum is lagging behind, in part due to a lack of instructors willing and able to teach basic bioinformatics in classes that don't specifically focus on quantitative skill development, such as statistics or computer sciences. To help undergraduate course instructors who themselves did not learn bioinformatics as part of their own education and are hesitant to plunge into teaching big data analysis, a module was developed that is written in plain-enough language, using publicly available computing tools and data, to allow novice instructors to teach next-generation sequence analysis to upper-level undergraduate students. To determine if the

SUBMITTER: Madlung A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5764237 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature