Computers, biological data (molecular sequences, structures, and other data), websites, and databases are integral to modern research. Innovations like precision, or personalized medicine, expect a certain level of patient participation, and our future food and environmental sustainability will require that society can access a multitude of computer-based resources. Thus, higher education has an important role in providing students with employable skills as well as the ability to use data to make important personal and societal decisions. Toward that goal it is worthwhile understanding how computers are being used in biology education today.
The Network for Integrating Bioinformatics into Life Sciences Education (NIBLSE; "nibbles") is a National Science Foundation Research Coordination Network for Undergraduate Biology Education (RCN-UBE) devoted to establishing bioinformatics as essential to the undergraduate life sciences curriculum. To that end, we are asking the community to help us determine core bioinformatics competencies for the undergraduate curriculum.
We are asking you to complete a short, anonymous survey if you are in one or more of the following groups:
- Educators who teach undergraduate life sciences at a 2-year or 4-year college, university, or technical school.
- Educators who supervise graduate students and who expect, or would like to expect, graduate student familiarity with bioinformatics.
- Biologists and/or bioinformaticians who teach/provide training in bioinformatics as part of their work at a company or organization, but not as part of a for-credit course at a college or university.
The survey should take you approximately 15 minutes to complete.
Follow this link to the Survey: Take the Survey
Or copy and paste the URL below into your Internet browser: https://oadsgeorgetown.qualtrics.com/SE?Q_SS=7Qfg2BEqcC0RL8N_5w3dMUkp18902Fv&Q_CHL=email
If you know someone who would be interested in taking the survey, please share the link below. As the URL above will only work once, such respondents should follow this link to the survey.
We invite you to read more about our activities and other ways to contribute and provide feedback at our project website or contact us at the address below. Thank you in advance for your input.
The NIBLSE Leadership Team
Mark Pauley (mark@niblse.org), University of Nebraska at Omaha
Elizabeth Dinsdale, San Diego State University
William Morgan, College of Wooster
Anne Rosenwald, Georgetown University
Eric Triplett, University of Florida
This survey is covered by IRB 161-16-EX. NIBLSE is supported by NSF Award #1539900.
NIBLSE is a proud partner of QUBES.
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To Sandra Porter:
I noticed at the bottom another article of yours titled:
"A beginner’s guide to making a phylogenetic tree”.
How do beginners hope to pull this off when the experts can’t?
I mean, I’m almost certain I’ve read of problem after problem and dead ends with phylogenetic trees.
Do you know how the project linked below turned out? The authors say it is a “grand challenge”.
http://www.pnas.org/content/112/41/12764.abstract
Our ability to make trees and understand evlolutionary relationships keeps improving due to the increased availability of DNA sequence data and improvements in technology. The New York Times has a great article on the most recent tree: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/12/science/scientists-unveil-new-tree-of…
I have a biology question:I think that the main reason of disappearing dinosaurs was because of dispersing small size of mammals and birds which were genetically more clever and higher speed in chacing