Conference: Global Bioinformatics Education Summit 2024 — Energizing Communities to Power the Bioeconomy Workforce

第六届全球生物信息学教育峰会将在纽约市举行，以应对培养一支精通数据的生命科学劳动力的挑战。峰会将以教育政策和实践方面的世界领导人为特色，并将包括侧重于政策制定者、资助者和行业合作伙伴如何合作制定支持生物信息学教育和培训的国家战略的会议。生物信息学-熟练的个人对于满足21世纪美国对活跃在生物经济中的不断变化的劳动力的需求至关重要。生物学的科学进步越来越多地依靠数据和模型驱动，目前需要标准生物学课程之外的技能。数据科学项目本身不能满足这一需求，因为特定领域的知识对于从信息中获得理解是必不可少的。首脑会议活动的重点是支持负责创建和维持诸如课程、能力框架、路线图和政策文件等产品开发的工作组。将招募广泛的参与者，以确保将许多受影响群体的观点纳入规划文件。长期目标是创建一个全面的、广泛可用的、包容的和可操作的生物信息学教育战略。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The 6th Global Bioinformatics Education Summit will take place in New York City, to address the challenges of fostering a data-literate life sciences workforce. The Summit will feature world leaders in education policy and practice, and will include sessions focused on how policymakers, funders and industry partners can work together to create national strategies that support bioinformatics education and training. Bioinformatics-skilled individuals are critical to meet 21st century US needs for a changing workforce active in the bioeconomy. Scientific progress in biology is increasingly data-rich and model-driven, requiring skills currently outside of the standard biology curriculum. Data science programs alone cannot supply the need because domain-specific knowledge is essential for deriving understanding from information. Summit activities are focused on supporting working groups tasked with creating and sustaining the development of products such as curricula, competency frameworks, roadmaps and policy papers. A broad range of participants will be recruited, in order to ensure that perspectives from many affected groups are incorporated in the planning documents. The long-term goal is to create a comprehensive, broadly available, inclusive and actionable bioinformatics education strategy.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.