Bioinformatics Computing: An Exportable Curriculum

生物信息学汇集了生物学，计算机科学和信息技术领域，以分析在过去15年中收集的千兆字节的基因组数据。生物信息学家在世纪所做的工作将极大地改变医学实践，就像晶体管的发现改变了20世纪世纪信息技术的进程一样。据一项研究估计，到2005年，全国需要20，000名生物信息学家，接受教育和培训，掌握生物学和计算机科学的复杂语言，仅靠一个机构是无法满足这一需求的。该项目的目标是开发课件，供其他机构在不同背景下使用，即使是那些没有生物信息学学位课程的机构。该项目提供了一套讲座演示和实验室手册，可以广泛传播和RIT以外的生物学家和计算机科学家团队使用，以支持生物信息学的教学。这些教学材料是由生物学家和计算机科学家组成的跨学科小组在外部机构学术合作伙伴的投入下开发的，其中包括由计算机科学家为生物学家编写的辅助材料，以便生物学家能够理解用于分析生物数据的计算过程。同样，由生物学家准备的支持材料将为计算机科学家编写，以便计算机科学家能够理解正在分析的基本生物过程。

Computer Science (31)Bioinformatics brings together the fields of biology, computer science, and information technology to analyze, among other things, the gigabytes of genome data that have been collected over the past fifteen years. The work that will be done by bioinformaticists in the 21st century will dramatically change the practice of medicine much like the discovery of the transistor altered the course of information technology in the 20th century. The national need for bioinformaticists, estimated by one study to be 20,000 by the year 2005, with the education and training to speak the complex languages of biology and computer science will not be met by one institution alone. The goal of this project is to develop courseware for general use in diverse contexts at other institutions, even those without a degree program in Bioinformatics. This project provides a packet of lecture presentations and laboratory manuals that can be widely disseminated and used by teams of biologists and computer scientists outside of RIT to support instruction in Bioinformatics. These instructional materials are being developed by an interdisciplinary team of biologists and computer scientists with input from academic partners from outside institutions.This work includes supporting material, prepared by computer scientists, written for biologists so that a biologist can understand the computational processes being utilized to analyze the biological data. Likewise supporting material, prepared by biologists, written for computer scientists will be developed so that a computer scientist can understand the basic biological processes being analyzed.