Bioinformatics Training Network (BTN): a community resource for bioinformatics trainers
Bioinformatics Training Network (BTN): a community resource for bioinformatics trainers
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DOI：
10.1093/bib/bbr064
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发表时间：
2012-05-01
影响因子：
9.5
通讯作者：
Brooksbank, Catherine
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作者：
Schneider, Maria V.;Walter, Peter;Brooksbank, Catherine
供资机构日益认识到，有必要为毕业生和研究人员提供各种学科的短期强化课程，以便提高一般技能基础，并为研究人员的职业生涯奠定坚实的基础。为了应对“高通量生物学”的发展，特别是生物信息学领域的培训需求正在复苏：它已被许多机构和研究计划确定为一个关键的优先事项，现在是许多赠款提案的重要组成部分。然而，在规划和准备满足这种培训需求时，在科学界占主导地位的奖励结构与必须用于设计、提供和维护高质量培训材料的时间之间出现了紧张关系，这种奖励结构迫使个人要么发表论文，要么死亡。相反，世界各地有许多相关的教材和培训专门知识，如果组织得当，任何需要提供培训或需要开设新课程的人都可以加以利用。然而，要做到这一点，材料必须集中在数据库中，并根据目标受众、学习目标等进行明确标记。理想情况下，它们还将经过同行评审，并且可以轻松有效地下载。在这里，我们介绍了生物信息学培训网络（BTN），一个新的企业，已启动，以解决这些需求和审查，分别类似的举措和集合。
Funding bodies are increasingly recognizing the need to provide graduates and researchers with access to short intensive courses in a variety of disciplines, in order both to improve the general skills base and to provide solid foundations on which researchers may build their careers. In response to the development of 'high-throughput biology', the need for training in the field of bioinformatics, in particular, is seeing a resurgence: it has been defined as a key priority by many Institutions and research programmes and is now an important component of many grant proposals. Nevertheless, when it comes to planning and preparing to meet such training needs, tension arises between the reward structures that predominate in the scientific community which compel individuals to publish or perish, and the time that must be devoted to the design, delivery and maintenance of high-quality training materials. Conversely, there is much relevant teaching material and training expertise available worldwide that, were it properly organized, could be exploited by anyone who needs to provide training or needs to set up a new course. To do this, however, the materials would have to be centralized in a database and clearly tagged in relation to target audiences, learning objectives, etc. Ideally, they would also be peer reviewed, and easily and efficiently accessible for downloading. Here, we present the Bioinformatics Training Network (BTN), a new enterprise that has been initiated to address these needs and review it, respectively, to similar initiatives and collections.