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)：这项建议是为了继续我们非常成功的计划，帮助少数族裔机构建立多学科生物信息学培训计划。我们将在四个部分的计划中做到这一点。首先是匹兹堡超级计算中心(PSC)为期两周的生物信息学暑期强化学院，面向教职员工；该学院强调基于序列的生物信息学，但包括蛋白质组学、基因组学和计算生物学的其他方面。其次，PSC的工作人员将前往选定的少数族裔机构，介绍生物信息学的概述，举办研究研讨会，与感兴趣的教职员工讨论生物信息学的公开研究问题，并协助当地教师团队教授一门生物信息学课程。第三是一个实习项目，来自少数族裔机构的学生来PSC进行为期五周的密集研究体验。第四，我们正在扩大我们原来的计划，将课程开发工作包括在内，提供一套支持生物信息学努力的课程；这些课程通常涉及生物科学、计算机科学和数学系的学生。虽然课程一般，但主要是为了支持生物信息学的证书计划。生物信息学有三个专业领域：生物学专业(如生物学、遗传学)、计算专业(如CS、IS)和建模专业(如数学、工程)。我们设想每个专业领域将有两门课程：一门是由其他专业领域的学生学习的调查课程，另一门是由该专业的学生学习的两门深度课程。我们期望来自每个专业领域的学生将保留这一背景作为他们的主要专长和专业能力，但将发展出在其专长领域(生物科学)应用生物信息学或将其专长领域应用于生物信息学(计算机和数学科学)问题的解决方案的强大能力。这些课程将被设计为单元课程中的单元课程，少数族裔服务机构可以根据具体机构的特殊情况、需要和愿望进行调整。