Academic Journal
Student biocuration projects as a learning environment
| العنوان: | Student biocuration projects as a learning environment |
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| المؤلفون: | Thurlow, KE, Lovering, RC, De Miranda Pinheiro, S |
| المصدر: | F1000Research , 10 , Article 1023. (2021) |
| بيانات النشر: | F1000 Research Ltd |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| المجموعة: | University College London: UCL Discovery |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Biocuration, Gene Ontology, community curation, student gene annotation |
| الوصف: | BACKGROUND: Bioinformatics is becoming an essential tool for the majority of biological and biomedical researchers. Although bioinformatics data is exploited by academic and industrial researchers, limited focus is on teaching this area to undergraduates, postgraduates and senior scientists. Many scientists are developing their own expertise without formal training and often without appreciating the source of the data they are reliant upon. Some universities do provide courses on a variety of bioinformatics resources and tools, a few also provide biocuration projects, during which students submit data to annotation resources. METHODS: To assess the usefulness and enjoyability of annotation projects a survey was sent to University College London (UCL) students who have undertaken Gene Ontology biocuration projects. RESULTS: Analysis of survey responses suggest that these projects provide students with an opportunity not only to learn about bioinformatics resources but also to improve their literature analysis, presentation and writing skills. CONCLUSIONS: Biocuration student projects provide valuable annotations as well as enabling students to develop a variety of skills relevant to their future careers. It is also hoped that, as future scientists, these students will critically assess their own manuscripts and ensure that these are written with the biocurators of the future in mind. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| وصف الملف: | text |
| اللغة: | English |
| Relation: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10136908/1/Thurlow_preprint.pdf; https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10136908/ |
| الاتاحة: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10136908/1/Thurlow_preprint.pdf https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10136908/ |
| Rights: | open |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.F640F2BF |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| الوصف غير متاح. |