Bioinformatics, School of Theoretical and Applied Science, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, NJ, USA.
Yale J Biol Med. 2012 Sep;85(3):309-21. Epub 2012 Sep 25.
The highly interdisciplinary field of bioinformatics has emerged as a powerful modern science. There has been a great demand for undergraduate- and graduate-level trained bioinformaticists in the industry as well in the academia. In order to address the needs for trained bioinformaticists, its curriculum must be offered at the undergraduate level, especially at four-year colleges, where a majority of the United States gets its education. There are many challenges in developing an undergraduate-level bioinformatics program that needs to be carefully designed as a well-integrated and cohesive interdisciplinary curriculum that prepares the students for a wide variety of career options. This article describes the challenges of establishing a highly interdisciplinary undergraduate major, the development of an undergraduate bioinformatics degree program at Ramapo College of New Jersey, and lessons learned in the last 10 years during its management.
生物信息学是一个高度跨学科的领域，已成为一门强大的现代科学。工业界和学术界都对本科和研究生水平的生物信息学家有很大的需求。为了满足对训练有素的生物信息学家的需求，其课程必须在本科阶段开设，特别是在四年制大学，因为美国大多数人都在这里接受教育。开发一个本科水平的生物信息学课程有很多挑战，需要精心设计，作为一个良好整合和有凝聚力的跨学科课程，为学生提供广泛的职业选择做好准备。本文描述了在新泽西州拉马波学院建立一个高度跨学科的本科专业所面临的挑战，以及在过去 10 年管理该专业过程中所吸取的经验教训。
