Assisting Bioinformatics Efforts at Minority Schools

协助少数族裔学校的生物信息学工作

• 批准号: 7113830
• 负责人: HUGH Blackard NICHOLAS
• 金额: $ 81.63万
• 依托单位: CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-09-01 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7113830
• 关键词: Assisting; Bioinformatics; Efforts; Minority; Schools

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal is to continue our highly successful program of assisting minority institutions in building multidisciplinary bioinformatics training programs. We will do this in a four part program. First is an intensive two-week long Summer Institute in bioinformatics at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) for faculty and staff; which emphasizes sequence-based bioinformatics, but includes coverage of proteomics, genomics and other aspects of computational biology. Second, PSC staff will travel to the selected minority institutions to present overviews of bioinformatics, present research seminars, discuss open research problems in bioinformatics with interested faculty members, and assist local faculty in team-teaching a bioinformatics course. Third is an internship program with students from minority institutions coming to the PSC for five weeks of intensive research experience. Fourth, we are expanding our original program to include a curriculum development effort to provide a set of courses to support bioinformatics efforts; which would typically involve students from the biological sciences, computer science, and mathematics departments. Though general, the curriculum is primarily designed to support a certificate program in bioinformatics. There are three specialty areas in bioinformatics: biology-specialty (e.g., biology, genetics), computational-specialty (e.g., CS, IS), and modeling specialty (e.g., mathematics, engineering). We envision that there will be two courses per specialty area: one survey course that is taken by students in the other specialty areas, and the two in-depth courses that are taken by students in the specialty. We expect that students entering from each track will retain that background as their primary area of expertise and professional competence but will develop a strong ability to apply bioinformatics within their area of expertise (biological sciences) or to apply their area of expertise to developing solutions for problems in bioinformatics (computer and mathematical sciences). These will be designed as modular courses in a modular curriculum that can be adapted by minority serving institutions to meet the particular circumstances, needs and desires of the specific institution.

描述（由申请人提供）：该提案将继续我们非常成功的计划，以帮助少数民族机构构建多学科生物信息学培训计划。我们将在四部分程序中执行此操作。首先是在匹兹堡超级计算中心（PSC）的生物信息学长期漫长的两周漫长的夏季研究所，专为教职员工；这强调了基于序列的生物信息学，但包括蛋白质组学，基因组学和计算生物学其他方面的覆盖范围。其次，PSC员工将前往选定的少数民族机构介绍生物信息学的概述，启动研究研讨会，与有兴趣的教职员工讨论生物信息学的开放研究问题，并协助当地教师进行团队教育课程。第三是一个实习计划，来自少数族裔机构来到PSC的学生进行了五个星期的密集研究经验。第四，我们正在扩大原始计划，以包括课程开发工作，以提供一组支持生物信息学工作的课程；这通常涉及来自生物科学，计算机科学和数学部门的学生。尽管一般，该课程主要旨在支持生物信息学证书计划。生物信息学有三个专业领域：生物学特殊区域（例如生物学，遗传学），计算特殊性（例如，CS，IS）和建模专业（例如，数学，工程学）。我们设想，每个专业领域将有两门课程：另一个专业领域的学生开设的一门调查课程，以及专业学生在专业的两个深度课程中。我们预计，从每条曲目中进入的学生将保留该背景作为其主要知识和专业能力的主要领域，但会在其专业知识领域（生物科学）或将其专业知识领域应用于对生物信息学（计算机和数学科学）的问题的解决方案中应用其专业知识领域的强大能力。这些将被设计为模块化课程中的模块化课程，该课程可以由少数派服务机构适应以满足特定机构的特定情况，需求和愿望。