Educating biologists in the 21st century: bioinformatics scientists versus bioinformatics technicians

Educating biologists in the 21st century: bioinformatics scientists versus bioinformatics technicians

Editorial: Bioinformatics education in the 21st century

Bioinformatics competency has become a key element in much of contemporary biology. The increasing potential that is to be realized with modern technologies, such as 'next-generation' sequencing, parallel and 'cloud' computing, and continually increasing data banks, requires a fundamental understanding of bioinformatics concepts and applications. On par with the complexity of biological inquiry...

Training Experimental Biologists in Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics, for its very nature, is devoted to a set of targets that constantly evolve. Training is probably the best response to the constant need for the acquisition of bioinformatics skills. It is interesting to assess the effects of training in the different sets of researchers that make use of it. While training bench experimentalists in the life sciences, we have observed instances of...

Bioinformatics software for biologists in the genomics era

MOTIVATION The genome sequencing revolution is approaching a landmark figure of 1000 completely sequenced genomes. Coupled with fast-declining, per-base sequencing costs, this influx of DNA sequence data has encouraged laboratory scientists to engage large datasets in comparative sequence analyses for making evolutionary, functional and translational inferences. However, the majority of the sci...

Bioinformatics and data-intensive scientific discovery in the beginning of the 21st century.

This article is a summary of the bioinformatics issues and challenges of data-intensive science as discussed in the NSF-funded Data-Intensive Science (DIS) workshop in Seattle, September 19-20, 2010.