A brief history of bioinformatics

J Gauthier, AT Vincent, SJ Charette… - Briefings in …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
It is easy for today's students and researchers to believe that modern bioinformatics
emerged recently to assist next-generation sequencing data analysis. However, the very …

Big data in public health: terminology, machine learning, and privacy

SJ Mooney, V Pejaver - Annual review of public health, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The digital world is generating data at a staggering and still increasing rate. While these “big
data” have unlocked novel opportunities to understand public health, they hold still greater …

Evaluating a large language model's ability to solve programming exercises from an introductory bioinformatics course

SR Piccolo, P Denny, A Luxton-Reilly… - PLOS Computational …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Computer programming is a fundamental tool for life scientists, allowing them to carry out
essential research tasks. However, despite various educational efforts, learning to write …

A global perspective on evolving bioinformatics and data science training needs

TK Attwood, S Blackford, MD Brazas… - Briefings in …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Bioinformatics is now intrinsic to life science research, but the past decade has witnessed a
continuing deficiency in this essential expertise. Basic data stewardship is still taught …

Many bioinformatics programming tasks can be automated with ChatGPT

SR Piccolo, P Denny, A Luxton-Reilly, S Payne… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Computer programming is a fundamental tool for life scientists, allowing them to carry out
many essential research tasks. However, despite a variety of educational efforts, learning to …

Protein structural bioinformatics: An overview

V de Almeida Paiva, I de Souza Gomes… - Computers in Biology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Proteins play a crucial role in organisms in nature. They are able to perform structural,
catalytic, transport and defense functions in cells, among others. We understand that a …

Bioinformatics core competencies for undergraduate life sciences education

MA Wilson Sayres, C Hauser, M Sierk, S Robic… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Although bioinformatics is becoming increasingly central to research in the life sciences,
bioinformatics skills and knowledge are not well integrated into undergraduate biology …

The development and application of bioinformatics core competencies to improve bioinformatics training and education

N Mulder, R Schwartz, MD Brazas… - PLoS computational …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Bioinformatics is recognized as part of the essential knowledge base of numerous career
paths in biomedical research and healthcare. However, there is little agreement in the field …

Providing insights into health data science education through artificial intelligence

N Rohani, K Gal, M Gallagher, A Manataki - BMC Medical Education, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Background Health Data Science (HDS) is a novel interdisciplinary field that
integrates biological, clinical, and computational sciences with the aim of analysing clinical …

Bioinformatics education—perspectives and challenges out of Africa

Ö Tastan Bishop, EF Adebiyi… - Briefings in …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The discipline of bioinformatics has developed rapidly since the complete sequencing of the
first genomes in the 1990s. The development of many high-throughput techniques during …