A New Online Computational Biology Curriculum

A recent proliferation of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and other web-based educational resources has greatly increased the potential for effective self-study in many fields. This article introduces a catalog of several hundred free video courses of potential interest to those wishing to expan...

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Autor principal: Searls, David B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Education
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4055417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24921255
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003662
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description A recent proliferation of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and other web-based educational resources has greatly increased the potential for effective self-study in many fields. This article introduces a catalog of several hundred free video courses of potential interest to those wishing to expand their knowledge of bioinformatics and computational biology. The courses are organized into eleven subject areas modeled on university departments and are accompanied by commentary and career advice.
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spelling pubmed-40554172014-06-18 A New Online Computational Biology Curriculum Searls, David B. PLoS Comput Biol Education A recent proliferation of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and other web-based educational resources has greatly increased the potential for effective self-study in many fields. This article introduces a catalog of several hundred free video courses of potential interest to those wishing to expand their knowledge of bioinformatics and computational biology. The courses are organized into eleven subject areas modeled on university departments and are accompanied by commentary and career advice. Public Library of Science 2014-06-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4055417/ /pubmed/24921255 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003662 Text en © 2014 David B http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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