Bioinformatics Programs at Minority Institutions

少数群体机构的生物信息学项目

• 批准号: 8217061
• 负责人: HUGH Blackard NICHOLAS
• 金额: $ 66.62万
• 依托单位: CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-02-01 至 2016-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8217061
• 关键词: Base Sequence; Bioinformatics; Biology; Biomedical Research; Chemistry; Computer software; Data; Development; Discipline; Educational Curriculum; Educational Materials; Educational process of instructing; Environment; Faculty; Funding; Genomics; Goals; Grant; Institutes; Institution; Instruction; Internships; Learning; Mentors; Minority; Minority-Serving Institution; Multimedia; Principal Investigator; Publications; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Activity; Research Project Grants; Research Technics; Resources; Scientist; Series; Stream; Structural Protein; Students; Supercomputing; Techniques; Training; Work; base; biomedical resource; computer science; improved; multidisciplinary; programs; skills; symposium; tool

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this project is to increase minority participation in biomedical research through an educational and research program that is formulated to assist minority serving institutions establishing bioinformatics programs ranging in size from a single course to a degree program. We will assist five primary partners that have established a sequence based bioinformatics course in developing a more extensive bioinformatics program consisting of multiple courses, degrees/certificates, publications and grant support. In addition, we will continue to assist in establishing initial courses with a rotating series of informal partners. We will also enhance our support with an online, educational computational center and learning environment. This center will facilitate educational initiatives with a stand-alone streaming set of multimedia modules covering critical bioinformatics concepts ranging from basic biology to advanced bioinformatics topics to applying bioinformatics software in optimal ways. In addition, the center will serve as a self paced interdisciplinary bioinformatics resource for students and faculty at minority serving institutions enabling bioinformatics resources to be accessed through an environment that provides educational support. Specifically we will achieve this goal through a four component program that includes: 1) Improving the curriculum at minority serving institutions by adding bioinformatics components into multiple courses and in multiple departments, and integrating bioinformatics into research projects. 2) A summer institute which trains faculty from minority serving institutions in bioinformatics teaching and research techniques. 3) An Online Educational Center and learning environment featuring online interdisciplinary teaching resources supplemented with multimedia modules, bioinformatics software and problem sets. 4) An eight week research internship focused on publishable research results. This four component program assists minority serving institutions by embedding aspects of bioinformatics into a broad swath of scientific disciplines in both coursework and research activities. RELEVANCE: This project assists minority scientists in making their research more effective and efficient by training them to make use of modern bioinformatics techniques to exploit the large amount of sequence, genomics, and protein structural data being generated in biomedical research.

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目的目的是通过一项教育和研究计划提高少数群体参与生物医学研究，该计划旨在帮助少数派服务机构建立生物信息学计划的规模从单一课程到程度计划。我们将协助五个主要合作伙伴，他们建立了基于序列的生物信息学课程，以开发更广泛的生物信息学计划，该计划包括多个课程，学位/证书，出版物和授予支持。此外，我们将继续协助建立一系列非正式合作伙伴的初始课程。我们还将通过在线，教育计算中心和学习环境来增强我们的支持。该中心将通过独立的多媒体模块集促进教育计划，涵盖关键的生物信息学概念，从基本生物学到先进的生物信息信息主题，再到以最佳方式应用生物信息学软件。此外，该中心将为少数派服务机构的学生和教职员工提供自节奏的跨学科生物信息学资源，从而通过提供教育支持的环境可以访问生物信息学资源。具体而言，我们将通过一个四个组件计划来实现这一目标，其中包括：1）通过将生物信息学组件添加到多个课程和多个部门中，并将生物信息学集成到研究项目中，从而改善少数族裔服务机构的课程。 2）一个夏季学院，从少数派服务机构的教师培训生物信息学教学和研究技巧。 3）一个在线教育中心和学习环境，其中包含在线跨学科教学资源，并补充了多媒体模块，生物信息学软件和问题集。 4）为期八周的研究实习，重点介绍了可发布的研究结果。这四个组成计划通过将生物信息学的各个方面纳入课程和研究活动中的一系列科学学科，为少数群体提供服务。 相关性：该项目通过训练利用现代生物信息学技术来利用生物医学研究中产生的大量序列，基因组学和蛋白质结构数据来帮助少数群体的研究更加有效和有效。