Bioinformatics Programs at Minority Institutions

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目的目标是通过制定教育和研究计划来增加少数民族对生物医学研究的参与，该计划旨在帮助少数民族服务机构建立从单一课程到学位课程不等的生物信息学计划。我们将协助五个主要合作伙伴建立一个基于序列的生物信息学课程，以发展一个更广泛的生物信息学计划，包括多个课程，学位/证书，出版物和资助支持。此外，我们将继续协助与一系列轮流的非正式伙伴建立初步课程。我们还将通过在线教育计算中心和学习环境来加强我们的支持。该中心将通过独立的多媒体模块集促进教育活动，涵盖从基础生物学到高级生物信息学主题的关键生物信息学概念，以及以最佳方式应用生物信息学软件。此外，该中心将为少数民族服务机构的学生和教师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。具体而言，我们将通过四个组成部分的计划来实现这一目标，其中包括：1)通过在多个课程和多个部门中添加生物信息学内容来改进少数民族服务机构的课程，并将生物信息学整合到研究项目中。2)对少数民族院校的教师进行生物信息学教学和研究技术培训的暑期研修班。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，辅以多媒体模块、生物信息学软件和习题。4)为期八周的研究实习，重点是可发表的研究成果。这个由四个部分组成的项目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民族服务机构。

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.