Bioinformatics Consortium – Educational Program

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Consortium Goals

• Develop collaborative undergraduate and graduate programs in bioinformatics

– Modeled on the undergraduate minor program in computational science

– Focus on competencies required for well-prepared students

• Take advantage of OSC computational resources for instruction and research

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Partipating Institutions

Bowling Green The Ohio State University

Case University of Akron

Central State University of Cincinnati

Clark State University of Toledo

Miami Wittenberg University

Ohio University Wright State University

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Example of Courses Being Offered Now

• Bioinformatics

• Applications of Bioinformatics/Proteomics/Genomics

• Bioinformatics computation

• Advanced topics in biomedical data management

• Advanced computational biology

• Total of 33 courses across the partner institutions

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Issues Impacting Bioscience Cluster

• Significant number of novice users at OSC

• Need for portals to make job submission/retrieval and instruction easier

• Require quick turn-around for classroom demonstration and class use

• Need new mechanisms for faculty to inform OSC about class assignment schedule and computational needs

• Graduate/research users will also require workflow tools and ways to manage a large number of datasets