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. 2014 Mar 6;10(3):e1003496.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003496. eCollection 2014 Mar.

Bioinformatics curriculum guidelines: toward a definition of core competencies

Lonnie Welch  1 , Fran Lewitter  2 , Russell Schwartz  3 , Cath Brooksbank  4 , Predrag Radivojac  5 , Bruno Gaeta  6 , Maria Victoria Schneider  7
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Bioinformatics curriculum guidelines: toward a definition of core competencies

Lonnie Welch et al. PLoS Comput Biol. .
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Figure 1
Figure 1. Draft of a controlled vocabulary for identifying specific requirements of computational biology and bioinformatics degree and certificate programs.
The terms are drawn from requirements observed in a manual survey of a subset of existing educational programs in order to allow identification of recurring requirements while also allowing for the wide variation between programs.
Figure 2
Figure 2. A persona based on a typical “bioinformatics user.” QA: Quality Assurance, GUI: Graphical User Interface.
Image credit: Jenny Cham, Mary Todd Bergman, and Cath Brooksbank, EMBL-EBI.
Figure 3
Figure 3. A persona based on a typical “bioinformatics scientist.” GUI: Graphical User Interface.
Image credit: Jenny Cham, Mary Todd Bergman, and Cath Brooksbank, EMBL-EBI.
Figure 4
Figure 4. A persona based on a typical “bioinformatics engineer.” GUI: Graphical User Interface.
Image credit: Jenny Cham, Mary Todd Bergman, and Cath Brooksbank, EMBL-EBI.
See this image and copyright information in PMC

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