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: 7898045
• 负责人: HUGH Blackard NICHOLAS
• 金额: $ 29.78万
• 依托单位: CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-08 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7898045
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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 applybioinformatics 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.

该建议是继续我们的非常成功的计划，以协助少数民族建设 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。首先是一个密集的两个 在匹兹堡超级计算中心（PSC）的生物信息学期间长周的夏季研究所； 强调基于序列的生物信息学，但包括蛋白质组学，基因组学和其他方面的覆盖范围 计算生物学。其次，PSC工作人员将前往选定的少数民族机构介绍 生物信息学，目前的研究研讨会，与有兴趣的教师讨论生物信息学的开放研究问题 会员，并协助当地教职员工参加生物信息学课程。第三是与学生的实习计划 从少数族裔机构来到PSC进行了五个星期的密集研究经验。第四，我们正在扩展 我们的原始计划包括课程开发工作，以提供一组支持生物信息学的课程 努力；这通常会涉及来自生物科学，计算机科学和数学的学生 部门。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）。我们设想每个课程将有两个课程 专业领域：其他专业领域的学生参加的一门调查课程，以及两个深入的课程 由专业的学生带走。我们希望从每条曲目中进入的学生将保留该背景 他们的主要专业知识和专业能力领域，但将发展出强大的应用Bioformitics 在其专业知识领域（生物科学）或将其专业知识领域应用于开发解决方案 生物信息学（计算机和数学科学）中的问题。这些将被设计为模块化课程 少数派服务机构可以适应的模块化课程，以满足特定情况，需求和 特定机构的欲望。