I've started to think more broadly about bioinformatics training, and after some conversations with Vicky Schneider at TGAC, Terri Atwood at GOBLET, and others, I thought I'd write down some thoughts on bioinformatics classrooms. In particular, what kind of compute infrastructure is needed?
Before I get started, my assumptions and …
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Julia Gustavsen and I just finished teaching one room of a 3-room Software Carpentry boot camp at University of Washington, Seattle.
Students remained interested and vocal, even when looking exhausted.
Almost all came back the second day!
We got some good individual feedback that we'd taught useful things …
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Randy Olson, who is watching amusedly from the side lines as I struggle once again to teach programming to graduate students in biology, asked a really good question (it's rare, yes, but it should be acknowledged for encouragement) --
read moreHad a student from your class ask me today if it's typical …
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One of the most important jobs a professor has is to pay it forward: that is, to teach, train, mentor, support, and open up opportunities for their students and postdocs. It's a job that is undervalued by those who focus on the short term -- the administrators and review committees that …
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The second iteration of our bioinformatics summer course, Analyzing Next-Generation Sequencing Data, just finished. It was a great success, at least judging from the comments that people made to us personally; the evaluations aren't yet complete.
The what: a two week course on analyzing next-gen sequencing data, using the Amazon …
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I'm just finishing up my Computational Science for Evolutionary Biologists course, and I'm finding it tricky to come up with a good high-level summary of what I would like them to take away. As you can see from the class notes they've done some reasonably neat stuff with Digital Life …
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PLoS Biology published an article entitled Open Education, Open Minds, in which they solicited ideas for contributions to a series on life sciences education:
Contributions to the Education Series are encouraged; ideas should be sent to plosbiology@plos.org.
So I sent in an e-mail and got back
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