Applying, Evaluating and Refining Bioinformatics Core Competencies (An Update from the Curriculum Task Force of ISCB’s Education Committee)

1 School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States of America, 2 European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 3 Department of Biological Sciences and Computational Biology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, 4 School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 5 Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, 6 National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, 7 MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 8 Computational Biology group, Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences, IDM, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, 9 School of Interdisciplinary Informatics, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America, 10 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America, 11 School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America, 12 Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 13 Department of Biology, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., United States of America, 14 School of the Biological Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Systems Biology Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 15 Departments of Computer Science and Bioengineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America