mb3 - Bioinformatics: the glue that holds it all together
All
disciplines generate data and try to make sense out of it. A unified
bioinformatics strategy helps to create a unified perspective that
makes it easier to cross interdisciplinary boundaries and "put it all
together".
- Dedicated courses in bioinformatics and computational biology
- Build bioinformatics into existing courses
- Need to identify a common skill set for students, and begin teaching it in freshman year
- A common bioinformatics infrastructure
- Unix/Linux crucial
- cutting-edge bioinformatics is primarily Unix-based
- multitasking, multiuser systems
- cost savings in hardware, software, system administration
- better network integration
- Unix desktops allow more sophisticated workflow
- Unix desktops accessible from anywhere
- Windows is intrinsically insecure
- Common set of tools and databases available both for
researchers and students. Students will work on this platform for their
entire student career
- Network-centric infrastructure
- minimizes ramp up time for students and instructors
- relieves burden of software and hardware administration for instructors
- available wherever there is high-speed Internet - on campus or at home
- minimize costs by using open-source software
