Fostering bioinformatics education through skill development of professors: Big Genomic Data Skills Training for Professors.

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 c

SUBMITTER: Zhan YA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6563947 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature