Table 1.
Summary of the skill sets of a bioinformatician, identified by surveying bioinformatics core facility directors and examining bioinformatics career opportunities.
Figure 1.
Draft of a controlled vocabulary for identifying specific requirements of computational biology and bioinformatics degree and certificate programs.
The terms are drawn from requirements observed in a manual survey of a subset of existing educational programs in order to allow identification of recurring requirements while also allowing for the wide variation between programs.
Table 2.
Core competencies for each bioinformatics training category.
Figure 2.
A persona based on a typical “bioinformatics user.” QA: Quality Assurance, GUI: Graphical User Interface.
Image credit: Jenny Cham, Mary Todd Bergman, and Cath Brooksbank, EMBL-EBI.
Figure 3.
A persona based on a typical “bioinformatics scientist.” GUI: Graphical User Interface.
Image credit: Jenny Cham, Mary Todd Bergman, and Cath Brooksbank, EMBL-EBI.
Figure 4.
A persona based on a typical “bioinformatics engineer.” GUI: Graphical User Interface.
Image credit: Jenny Cham, Mary Todd Bergman, and Cath Brooksbank, EMBL-EBI.