Bioinformatics Programs at Minority Institutions

描述(由申请人提供)：该项目的目标是通过一个教育和研究计划来增加少数群体在生物医学研究中的参与，该计划旨在帮助少数群体服务机构建立规模从单一课程到学位计划的生物信息学课程。我们将帮助已经建立了基于序列的生物信息学课程的五个主要合作伙伴开发更广泛的生物信息学课程，包括多门课程、学位/证书、出版物和赠款支持。此外，我们将继续协助与一系列轮流的非正式伙伴一起设立初始课程。我们还将加强对在线教育计算中心和学习环境的支持。该中心将通过一套独立的流媒体多媒体模块促进教育活动，涵盖关键的生物信息学概念，从基础生物学到高级生物信息学主题，再到以最佳方式应用生物信息学软件。此外，该中心将为少数族裔服务机构的学生和教职员工提供自定进度的跨学科生物信息学资源，使生物信息学资源能够通过提供教育支持的环境获得。具体地说，我们将通过一个四个组成部分的计划来实现这一目标，该计划包括：1)通过在多门课程和多个系增加生物信息学组成部分，并将生物信息学纳入研究项目，改善少数族裔服务机构的课程。2)一个暑期学院，培训少数族裔服务机构的教师生物信息学教学和研究技术。3)在线教育中心和学习环境，以在线跨学科教学资源为特色，辅之以多媒体模块、生物信息学软件和习题集。4)为期八周的研究实习，重点是可发表的研究成果。这个四个组成部分的计划通过在课程和研究活动中将生物信息学的各个方面嵌入到广泛的科学学科中来帮助少数族裔服务机构。 相关性：该项目帮助少数族裔科学家通过培训他们利用现代生物信息学技术来利用生物医学研究中产生的大量序列、基因组和蛋白质结构数据，从而使他们的研究更加有效和高效。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this project is to increase minority participation in biomedical research through an educational and research program that is formulated to assist minority serving institutions establishing bioinformatics programs ranging in size from a single course to a degree program. We will assist five primary partners that have established a sequence based bioinformatics course in developing a more extensive bioinformatics program consisting of multiple courses, degrees/certificates, publications and grant support. In addition, we will continue to assist in establishing initial courses with a rotating series of informal partners. We will also enhance our support with an online, educational computational center and learning environment. This center will facilitate educational initiatives with a stand-alone streaming set of multimedia modules covering critical bioinformatics concepts ranging from basic biology to advanced bioinformatics topics to applying bioinformatics software in optimal ways. In addition, the center will serve as a self paced interdisciplinary bioinformatics resource for students and faculty at minority serving institutions enabling bioinformatics resources to be accessed through an environment that provides educational support. Specifically we will achieve this goal through a four component program that includes: 1) Improving the curriculum at minority serving institutions by adding bioinformatics components into multiple courses and in multiple departments, and integrating bioinformatics into research projects. 2) A summer institute which trains faculty from minority serving institutions in bioinformatics teaching and research techniques. 3) An Online Educational Center and learning environment featuring online interdisciplinary teaching resources supplemented with multimedia modules, bioinformatics software and problem sets. 4) An eight week research internship focused on publishable research results. This four component program assists minority serving institutions by embedding aspects of bioinformatics into a broad swath of scientific disciplines in both coursework and research activities. RELEVANCE: This project assists minority scientists in making their research more effective and efficient by training them to make use of modern bioinformatics techniques to exploit the large amount of sequence, genomics, and protein structural data being generated in biomedical research.