MULTI-CAMPUS BIOINFORMATICS EDUCATION SPECIALIST

该子项目是利用NIH/NCRR资助的中心赠款提供的资源的许多研究子项目之一。子项目和研究者（PI）可能从另一个NIH来源获得主要资金，因此可以在其他CRISP条目中表示。所列机构为中心，不一定是研究者所在机构。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具有相当大的前景。因此，它为本科院校的教师和学生带来了机遇和挑战。机会出现在公开数据库的数据挖掘的形式，使教师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。这些资源在本科校园里往往是有限的或缺失的。挑战出现，因为生物信息学学科是如此新，一个典型的教师在本科院校没有遇到它在他或她的正规教育。此外，生物信息学处于快速变化的状态，很难跟上最新的进步和发展，特别是对于本科院校的教师来说，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无法充分接触这一重要领域。 因此，OK INBRE提供了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师和学生合作。该信息学职位位于OUHSC校园，MBE专家与INBRE生物信息学核心有效互动。而MBE专家将使用OUHSC作为一个？基地，？这个人在每个大学校园花费相当多的时间，以评估大学校园的教师和学生的需求，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，为有兴趣开发生物信息学研究生课程的学生提供一些必要的背景。MBE专家还与本科校园的教师合作，使他们熟悉该学科，以便他们能够将生物信息学纳入自己的研究和教学活动。分子生物学专家也非常适合通过生物信息学核心摘要中描述的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。

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.