Integrating Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics Education

Combined awareness about the power and limitations of bioinformatics and molecular biology enables advanced research based on high-throughput data. Despite an increasing demand of scientists with a combined background in both fields, the education of dry and wet lab subjects are often still separate...

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Published inJournal of integrative bioinformatics Vol. 16; no. 3; pp. 398 - 404
Main Authors Pucker, Boas, Schilbert, Hanna Marie, Schumacher, Sina Franziska
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Germany De Gruyter 30.05.2019
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bioinformatics
Computational Biology - education
Female
genome assembly
genome research
Humans
Male
molecular biology
Molecular Biology - education
NGS
Opinion Papers
RNA-Seq
sequencing technologies
teaching
transcriptome assembly
variant calling
molecular biology
RNA-Seq
bioinformatics
teaching
variant calling
NGS
transcriptome assembly
genome research
sequencing technologies
genome assembly
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Summary:Combined awareness about the power and limitations of bioinformatics and molecular biology enables advanced research based on high-throughput data. Despite an increasing demand of scientists with a combined background in both fields, the education of dry and wet lab subjects are often still separated. This work describes an example of integrated education with a focus on genomics and transcriptomics. Participants learned computational and molecular biology methods in the same practical course. Peer-review was applied as a teaching method to foster cooperative learning of students with heterogeneous backgrounds. The positive evaluation results indicate that this approach was accepted by the participants and would likely be suitable for wider scale application.
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ISSN:1613-4516
1613-4516
DOI:10.1515/jib-2019-0005