A proposed minimum skill set for university graduates to meet the informatics needs and challenges of the "-omics" era

BMC Genomics

Volumn 10, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2009, Pages

  Tan, Tin W ^a   Lim, Shen J ^a   Khan, Asif M ^a   Ranganathan, Shoba ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION PROGRAM; GRADUATE STUDENT; KNOWLEDGE; MATHEMATICS; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; SKILL; STATISTICS; WORKSHOP; EDUCATION; GENOMICS; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CURRICULUM; GENOMICS; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

BASIC TRAINING; BIOINFORMATICIANS; CAN INTERFACE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CROSS-DISCIPLINARY; CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; DATA SETS; GRADUATE LEVELS; HIGH THROUGHPUT; INFORMATICS; LIFE-SCIENCES; MOLECULAR PHENOMENA; UNIVERSITY GRADUATES;

CURRICULA; DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION SCIENCE;

BIOINFORMATICS;

EID: 71549116082     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-S3-S36     Document Type: Article

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