Bioinformatics is a multifaceted discipline combining many scientific fields including
computational biology, statistics, mathematics, molecular biology, and genetics …

This paper considers what makes a short course in bioinformatics successful. In today's
research environment, exposure to bioinformatics training is something that anyone …

Recent advances in genomics and structural biology have resulted in an unprecedented
increase in biological data available from Internet-accessible databases. In order to help …

The problem of developing a curriculum for biomedical informatics is highly dependent on
how we choose to define and practice the field. Numerous authors have questioned how to …

The Curriculum Task Force (CTF) of ISCB's Education Committee seeks to define curricular
guidelines for those who educate or train bioinformatics professionals at all career stages. A …

“Scientific community” refers to a group of people collaborating together on scientific-
research-related activities who also share common goals, interests, and values. Such …

In recent years, high-throughput technologies have brought big data to the life sciences. The
march of progress has been rapid, leaving in its wake a demand for courses in data …

The proliferation of bioinformatics in modern biology marks a modern revolution in science
that promises to influence science education at all levels. This study analyzed secondary …

The completion of the human genome project, and other genome sequencing projects, has
spearheaded the emergence of the field of bioinformatics. Using computer programs to …

Bioinformatics draws on a variety of sources--computational biology, computer science,
molecular biology, genetics, information technology (IT)--and has been defined many ways …