Bioinformatics Curriculum Guidelines: Toward a Definition of Core Competencies

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Welch, Lonnie ^a   Lewitter, Fran ^b   Schwartz, Russell ^c   Brooksbank, Cath ^d   Radivojac, Predrag ^e   Gaeta, Bruno ^f   Schneider, Maria Victoria ^g  

^a US Institute of Navigation   (United States)

^b WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

^d EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^g NORWICH RESEARCH PARK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA;

CORE COMPETENCIES; CURRICULA GUIDELINES;

BIOINFORMATICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGY; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOSTATISTICS; CAREER MOBILITY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION PROGRAM; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; SCIENTIST; SKILL;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, GRADUATE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84897429664     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003496     Document Type: Article

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