Barriers to integration of bioinformatics into undergraduate life sciences education: A national study of US life sciences faculty uncover significant barriers to integrating bioinformatics into undergraduate instruction.

Bioinformatics, a discipline that combines aspects of biology, statistics, mathematics, and computer science, is becoming increasingly important for biological research. However, bioinformatics instruction is not yet generally integrated into undergraduate life sciences curricula. To understand why...

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Main Authors: Jason J Williams, Jennifer C Drew, Sebastian Galindo-Gonzalez, Srebrenka Robic, Elizabeth Dinsdale, William R Morgan, Eric W Triplett, James M Burnette, Samuel S Donovan, Edison R Fowlks, Anya L Goodman, Nealy F Grandgenett, Carlos C Goller, Charles Hauser, John R Jungck, Jeffrey D Newman, William R Pearson, Elizabeth F Ryder, Michael Sierk, Todd M Smith, Rafael Tosado-Acevedo, William Tapprich, Tammy C Tobin, Arlín Toro-Martínez, Lonnie R Welch, Melissa A Wilson, David Ebenbach, Mindy McWilliams, Anne G Rosenwald, Mark A Pauley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224288