Two interactive Bioinformatics courses at the Bielefeld University Bioinformatics Server

• Published in: Briefings in bioinformatics Vol. 9; no. 3; pp. 243 - 249
• Main Authors: Sczyrba, Alexander, Konermann, Susanne, Giegerich, Robert
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 01-05-2008; Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
• Subjects: Bioinformatics; Biological and medical sciences; Colleges & universities; Computational Biology - education; Computer-Assisted Instruction - methods; Curriculum; Education, Professional - organization & administration; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects; Genomics - education; Germany; Interactive learning; Internet; Mathematics in biology. Statistical analysis. Models. Metrology. Data processing in biology (general aspects); Online instruction; Science education; Servers; Teaching - methods; User-Computer Interface; Germany; online courses; dynamic programming; sequence analysis; Bioinformatics education; Dynamic programming; Education; Bioinformatics
• ISSN: 1467-5463; 1477-4054
• DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbm063

Conferences in computational biology continue to provide tutorials on classical and new methods in the field. This can be taken as an indicator that education is still a bottleneck in our field's process of becoming an established scientific discipline. Bielefeld University has been one of the early providers of bioinformatics education, both locally and via the internet. The Bielefeld Bioinformatics Server (BiBiServ) offers a variety of older and new materials. Here, we report on two online courses made available recently, one introductory and one on the advanced level: (i) SADR: Sequence Analysis with Distributed Resources (http://bibiserv.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/sadr/) and (ii) ADP: Algebraic Dynamic Programming in Bioinformatics (http://bibiserv.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/dpcourse/).