title: An online bioinformatics curriculum.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: david.b.searls@gmail.com
authors.forename: David B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Searls
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000193:education*; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods*; D003479:Curriculum; D020407:Internet; D009862:Online Systems; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D014584:User-Computer Interface