Bioinformatics Education: Perspectives and Challenges

ABSTRACT

During the past years bioinformatics evolve from a predominantly descriptive discipline to an information science. As data converted to knowledge and empirical rules to principles, bioinformatics become a more fundamental discipline. It already starts to encompass not only biology, mathematics and computer science, but also physics and chemistry to make predictions based on general principles. This article proposes the learning outcomes that graduates should achieve to cope with the new biology and medicine.

Keywords:

• bioinformatics
• biology
• computer science
• education