The integration of computers in life sciences has been growing for the last two decades.
While the first release of GenBank contained a mere half a million DNA sequence bases in …

This book is written by an experienced author team representing the many areas from which
the new discipline of Bioinformatics is emerging. Their common sense approach and …

Investing in documenting your bioinformatics software well can increase its impact and save
your time. To maximize the effectiveness of your documentation, we suggest following a few …

Depending on who you ask, bioinformatics can refer to almost any collaborative effort
between biologists or geneticists and computer scientists–from database development, to …

The 2009 annual conference of the Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet), Asia's
oldest bioinformatics organisation from 1998, was organized as the 8 th International …

Several years ago, George Mason University instituted the first Ph. D. program in
bioinformatics in the world. This step was followed by many other organizations, and …

Developing a truly interdisciplinary bioinformatics track Page 1
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Over the last few decades, the nature of life sciences research has changed enormously,
generating a need for a workforce with a variety of computational skills such as those …

This paper provides an overview of the history and funding of bioinformatics training in the
USA, and summarises some of the challenges and key features associated with …

For many years algorithms were taught exclusively to computer scientists, with relatively few
students from other disciplines attending algorithm courses. A biology student in an …