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An Online Bioinformatics Curriculum

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  • David B Searls

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Online learning initiatives over the past decade have become increasingly comprehensive in their selection of courses and sophisticated in their presentation, culminating in the recent announcement of a number of consortium and startup activities that promise to make a university education on the internet, free of charge, a real possibility. At this pivotal moment it is appropriate to explore the potential for obtaining comprehensive bioinformatics training with currently existing free video resources. This article presents such a bioinformatics curriculum in the form of a virtual course catalog, together with editorial commentary, and an assessment of strengths, weaknesses, and likely future directions for open online learning in this field.

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  • David B Searls, 2012. "An Online Bioinformatics Curriculum," PLOS Computational Biology, Public Library of Science, vol. 8(9), pages 1-20, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pcbi00:1002632
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002632
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