MULTI-CAMPUS BIOINFORMATICS EDUCATION SPECIALIST

这个子项目是利用由NIH/NCRR资助的中心拨款提供的资源的许多研究子项目之一。子项目和调查员(PI)可能从另一个NIH来源获得了主要资金，因此可能会出现在其他CRISE条目中。列出的机构是针对中心的，而不一定是针对调查员的机构。生物信息学是生物学中一个新的、迅速发展的领域，在解决基础生物学和应用医学中的重要问题方面有着相当大的前景。因此，它给本科院校的教职员工和学生带来了机遇和挑战。机会以公开数据库的数据挖掘的形式出现，允许教员进行有意义的生物信息学研究，同时减少对实验室设备和空间的需求。在本科生校园里，这样的资源往往是有限的，甚至是缺失的。挑战之所以出现，是因为生物信息学学科是如此之新，以至于本科院校的普通教员在他或她的正规教育中没有遇到过它。此外，生物信息学处于快速变化的状态，很难跟上最近的进步和发展，特别是对于本科院校的教职员工来说，他们的教学负担很重，必须努力在相对广泛的领域保持最新。因此，本科院校的学生可能得不到足够的机会接触这一重要领域。因此，OK INBRE提供了一名多校区生物信息学教育(MBE)专家的支持，该专家致力于与本科校园的教职员工和学生合作。该信息学职位位于OUHSC园区，MBE专家在这里与INBRE生物信息学核心进行有效的互动。虽然MBE专家将使用OUHSC作为总部，？这个人花了相当多的时间在每个本科校园里，评估本科校园的教职员工和学生的需求，开发生物信息学工具和教育材料来满足这些需求。MBE专家负责开发本科教育包，为对开发OU生物信息学研究生计划感兴趣的学生提供一些必要的背景知识。这位MBE专家还与本科生校园的教职员工合作，让他们熟悉这门学科，这样他们就可以将生物信息学纳入自己的研究和教学活动。MBE专家也非常适合通过俄克拉荷马州重新注释(OKRA)项目向本科生介绍微生物基因组序列分析，该项目在《生物信息学核心》的摘要中进行了描述。

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. Bioinformatics is a new and rapidly expanding field in biology with considerable promise for addressing important questions in both basic biology and applied medicine. As such it presents both opportunities and challenges for faculty and students at undergraduate institutions. Opportunities appear in the form of data mining of publicly available databases, allowing faculty members to carry out meaningful bioinformatics research while reducing the need for laboratory equipment and space. Such resources are often limited or missing on undergraduate campuses. Challenges arise because the bioinformatics discipline is so new that a typical faculty member at an undergraduate institution did not encounter it in his or her formal education. Moreover, bioinformatics is in a state of rapid flux, making it difficult to keep up with recent advances and developments, particularly for faculty members at undergraduate institutions who have heavy teaching loads and must try to stay current in relatively broad areas. Consequently, students at undergraduate institutions may not receive sufficient exposure to this important field. Thus, the OK INBRE provided for the support of a Multi-campus Bioinformatics Education (MBE) specialist, who is dedicated to working with faculty and students on the undergraduate campuses. This informatics position is located on the OUHSC campus, where the MBE Specialist interacts effectively with the INBRE Bioinformatics Core. While the MBE specialist will use OUHSC as a ?home base,? this individual spends considerable time on each undergraduate campus, to assess faculty and student needs at the undergraduate campuses, for development of bioinformatics tools and educational materials to address these needs. The MBE specialist is responsible for developing undergraduate education packages that will provide some of the necessary background for students interested in the developing OU Bioinformatics Graduate Program. The MBE specialist also works with faculty at the undergraduate campuses to acquaint them with the discipline so that they can incorporate bioinformatics into their own research and teaching activities. The MBE Specialist also is well suited to introducing undergraduates to microbial genome sequence analysis, via the Oklahoma Re-Annotation (OKRA) Project, described in the abstract for the Bioinformatics Core.