Title
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 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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007026
PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
15
6
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1553-7358
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6