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View article: Biological databases in the age of generative artificial intelligence
Biological databases in the age of generative artificial intelligence Open
Summary Modern biological research critically depends on public databases. The introduction and propagation of errors within and across databases can lead to wasted resources as scientists are led astray by bad data or have to conduct expe…
View article: Bioschemas training profiles: A set of specifications for standardizing training information to facilitate the discovery of training programs and resources
Bioschemas training profiles: A set of specifications for standardizing training information to facilitate the discovery of training programs and resources Open
Stand-alone life science training events and e-learning solutions are among the most sought-after modes of training because they address both point-of-need learning and the limited timeframes available for “upskilling.” Yet, finding releva…
View article: Bioschemas Training Profiles: A set of specifications for standardizing training information to facilitate the discovery of training programs and resources
Bioschemas Training Profiles: A set of specifications for standardizing training information to facilitate the discovery of training programs and resources Open
Stand-alone life science training events and e-learning solutions are amongst the most sought-after modes of training because they address both point-of-need learning and the limited timeframes available for ‘upskilling’. Yet, finding rele…
View article: Using the The Mastery Rubric for Bioinformatics – A professional guide
Using the The Mastery Rubric for Bioinformatics – A professional guide Open
Overview: This Professional Guide outlines how the Mastery Rubric for Bioinformatics (MR-Bi) can be used as a practical tool both to inform course design, and to support professional development. The specific focus here is on understanding…
View article: Ten Simples Rules on How to Organise a Bioinformatics Hackathon
Ten Simples Rules on How to Organise a Bioinformatics Hackathon Open
The completion of the human genome sequence triggered worldwide efforts to unravel the secrets hidden in its deceptively simple code. Numerous bioinformatics projects were undertaken to hunt for genes, predict their protein products, funct…
View article: Using bioinformatics to hunt SARS-CoV-2, its variants & its origins – a practical guide
Using bioinformatics to hunt SARS-CoV-2, its variants & its origins – a practical guide Open
This Practical Guide outlines basic bioinformatics approaches for exploring the SARS-CoV-2 genome and its corresponding proteins, focusing on the protein exposed on the viral particle surface: the spike protein. The ways in which bioinform…
View article: Ten simple rules for making training materials FAIR
Ten simple rules for making training materials FAIR Open
Author summary: Everything we do today is becoming more and more reliant on the use of computers. The field of biology is no exception; but most biologists receive little or no formal preparation for the increasingly computational aspects …
View article: Guidelines for curriculum and course development in higher education and training
Guidelines for curriculum and course development in higher education and training Open
Curriculum development in higher education should follow a formal process. Although the focus in formal curriculum theory is on long-term programs of study, the theoretical and practical considerations are also applicable to shorter-form l…
View article: Ten Simples Rules on How to Organise a Bioinformatics Hackathon
Ten Simples Rules on How to Organise a Bioinformatics Hackathon Open
A hackathon is an event in which bioinformatics developers convene to work together to produce new software tools and webservices as solutions to the challenges provided. These hackathons have been extremely successful and produced not onl…
View article: TeSS: a platform for discovering life-science training opportunities
TeSS: a platform for discovering life-science training opportunities Open
Summary Dispersed across the Internet is an abundance of disparate, disconnected training information, making it hard for researchers to find training opportunities that are relevant to them. To address this issue, we have developed a new …
View article: A Critical Guide to Unix
A Critical Guide to Unix Open
This Critical Guide in the Introduction to Bioinformatics series briefly introduces the Unix Operating System, and provides a subset of some of the most helpful and commonly used commands....
View article: Challenges – and Options for addressing them –when following the Guidelines for curriculum and course development in higher education and training
Challenges – and Options for addressing them –when following the Guidelines for curriculum and course development in higher education and training Open
View article: Course design: Considerations for trainers – a Professional Guide
Course design: Considerations for trainers – a Professional Guide Open
Overview: This Professional Guide introduces a structured approach to course design, highlighting the importance of articulating learning outcomes commensurate with the cognitive complexity of the target learning, prior to devising learnin…
View article: Guidelines for curriculum and course development in higher education and training
Guidelines for curriculum and course development in higher education and training Open
View article: Making training materials FAIR in 10 steps
Making training materials FAIR in 10 steps Open
View article: Bioinformatics: Food Detective – a Practical Guide
Bioinformatics: Food Detective – a Practical Guide Open
This Practical Guide in the Bringing Bioinformatics into the Classroom series introduces the idea of computers as tools to help understand aspects of biology. In particular, it looks at how DNA sequences can be used to identify specific or…
View article: A Critical Guide to BLAST
A Critical Guide to BLAST Open
This Critical Guide in the Introduction to Bioinformatics series provides an overview of the BLAST similarity search tool, briefly examining the underlying algorithm and its rise to popularity.
View article: Making training materials FAIR in 10 steps
Making training materials FAIR in 10 steps Open
View article: A Critical Guide to the PDB
A Critical Guide to the PDB Open
This Critical Guide in the Introduction to Bioinformatics series provides a brief outline of the Protein Data Bank – the PDB – the world’s primary repository of biological macromolecular structures.
View article: Introducing computer-aided drug design – a practical guide
Introducing computer-aided drug design – a practical guide Open
This Practical Guide in the Bringing Bioinformatics into the Classroom series outlines basic computational approaches used in drug discovery. It highlights how bioinformatics can be harnessed to design drug candidates, to predict their aff…
View article: Using Bioinformatics to Understand Genetic Diseases: A Practical Guide
Using Bioinformatics to Understand Genetic Diseases: A Practical Guide Open
This Practical Guide outlines a number of basic bioinformatics approaches that can be used to understand the molecular basis of genetic diseases.
View article: A Critical Guide to the UniProtKB Flat-file Format
A Critical Guide to the UniProtKB Flat-file Format Open
This Critical Guide briefly presents the need for biological databases and for a standard format for storing and organising biological data.
View article: The Mastery Rubric for Bioinformatics: A tool to support design and evaluation of career-spanning education and training
The Mastery Rubric for Bioinformatics: A tool to support design and evaluation of career-spanning education and training Open
As the life sciences have become more data intensive, the pressure to incorporate the requisite training into life-science education and training programs has increased. To facilitate curriculum development, various sets of (bio)informatic…
View article: Open Science
Open Science Open
View article: The Mastery Rubric for Bioinformatics: supporting design and evaluation of career-spanning education and training
The Mastery Rubric for Bioinformatics: supporting design and evaluation of career-spanning education and training Open
As the life sciences have become more data intensive, the pressure to incorporate the requisite training into life-science education and training programs has increased. To facilitate curriculum development, various sets of (bio)informatic…
View article: Advancing the international data science workforce through shared training and education
Advancing the international data science workforce through shared training and education Open
The increasing richness and diversity of biomedical data types creates major organizational and analytical impediments to rapid translational impact in the context of training and education. As biomedical data-sets increase in size, variet…
View article: Ten Simple Rules for avoiding and resolving conflicts with your colleagues
Ten Simple Rules for avoiding and resolving conflicts with your colleagues Open
During the course of our personal and professional lives, we spend a significant amount of time communicating with others.In fact, communication is one of the most important, but possibly also one of the hardest, things we do, having the p…
View article: Rolling out bioinformatics teaching resources for high-school teachers
Rolling out bioinformatics teaching resources for high-school teachers Open
View article: Bioinformatics: the Power of Computers in Biology – a Practical Guide
Bioinformatics: the Power of Computers in Biology – a Practical Guide Open
This Practical Guide in the Bringing Bioinformatics into the Classroom series introduces simple bioinformatics approaches for database searching and sequence analysis. A ‘mystery’ gene is used as an exemplar: we first characterise the gene…
View article: How the Mastery Rubric for Bioinformatics (MR-Bi) supports course and curriculum development
How the Mastery Rubric for Bioinformatics (MR-Bi) supports course and curriculum development Open