Computing has changed biology-biology education must catch up

Science

Volumn 325, Issue 5940, 2009, Pages 541-542

  Pevzner, Pavel ^a   Shamir, Ron ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; EDUCATION; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; BIOCHIP; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGY; COURSE CONTENT; COURSE EVALUATION; CURRICULUM; DNA SEQUENCE; ECONOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICS; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CURRICULUM; MATHEMATICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TEACHING; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 68149175042     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1173876     Document Type: Short Survey

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10. We are grateful to all participants of RECOMB Bioinformatics Education conference (La Jolla, 14 and 15 March 2009) for many comments on various aspects of bioinformatics education. We are also grateful to V. Bafna, N. Bandeira, A. Tanay, and G. Tesler for many interesting discussions and suggestions. The conference was supported by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professors Program.