TY - GEN
T1 - Bioinformatics in the Undergraduate Curriculum
T2 - 35th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
AU - Burhans, Debra T.
AU - Doom, Travis E.
AU - DeJongh, Matt
AU - LeBlanc, Mark
PY - 2004/3
Y1 - 2004/3
N2 - Biology has become an increasingly data-driven science. Modern experimental techniques, including automated DNA sequencing, gene expression micro arrays, and X-ray crystallography are producing molecular data at a rate that has made traditional data analysis methods impractical. Computational methods are becoming an increasingly important aspect of the evaluation and analysis of experimental data in molecular biology. Bioinformatics is the term coined for the new field that merges biology and computer science to manage and analyze this data, with the ultimate goal of understanding and modeling living systems [1]. The emergence of bioinformatics provides new challenges and opportunities for computer science educators. This panel assembles four individuals who collectively have experience teaching bioinformatics at both liberal arts colleges and universities, and who also have industry experience in bioinformatics, to discuss various approaches to incorporating bioinformatics into the undergraduate curriculum.
AB - Biology has become an increasingly data-driven science. Modern experimental techniques, including automated DNA sequencing, gene expression micro arrays, and X-ray crystallography are producing molecular data at a rate that has made traditional data analysis methods impractical. Computational methods are becoming an increasingly important aspect of the evaluation and analysis of experimental data in molecular biology. Bioinformatics is the term coined for the new field that merges biology and computer science to manage and analyze this data, with the ultimate goal of understanding and modeling living systems [1]. The emergence of bioinformatics provides new challenges and opportunities for computer science educators. This panel assembles four individuals who collectively have experience teaching bioinformatics at both liberal arts colleges and universities, and who also have industry experience in bioinformatics, to discuss various approaches to incorporating bioinformatics into the undergraduate curriculum.
KW - Bioinformatics
KW - Computational Biology
KW - Genomics
KW - Interdisciplinary Education
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U2 - 10.1145/1028174.971381
DO - 10.1145/1028174.971381
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33646825202
SN - 1581137982
SN - 9781581137989
VL - 36
T3 - SIGCSE Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education)
SP - 229
EP - 230
BT - Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2004
Y2 - 3 March 2004 through 7 March 2004
ER -