Pine Biotech and the Louisiana Biomedical Research Network is announcing the start of the Louisiana Biomedical Research Network Bioinformatics Summer Program, starting in June 2018. The program is organized with support from the Tauber Bioinformatics Research Center and the Center ...
Read More »Piloting a Collaborative Model for Bioinformatics Education
Bioinformatics is a discipline that requires a combination of skills from the biological, computational, and statistical sciences. Many programs prioritize the technical aspects of bioinformatics over the biological concepts and logic of analyses, thus limiting the emphasis on critical thinking, ...
Read More »Can bioinformatics be more accessible?
You may have heard about the wonderful things you can find in the raw data your lab produces. Some of it gets published: it becomes part of a groundbreaking study, or inspires the development of a life-saving drug, though most ...
Read More »RNA-Seq in the Classroom – Pathways to Undergraduate Research
Carrie Thurber, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, Tifton, GA Modern biology students will be expected to use and analyze whole-genome and whole-transcriptome data sets across the medical, agricultural and environmental fields. I introduce sophomore and junior level undergraduates to these kinds ...
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