Table 1.
Questions included in the survey sent to the Bioinformatics Italian community.
Fig 1.
Pie charts describing the general results obtained from the survey.
Panel (a): Academic disciplines of the teachers who responded to the survey. BIO: life science/medicine disciplines; INF: computer science disciplines; ENG: engineering disciplines; Others: other scientific disciplines. Panel (b): Academic disciplines attributed to the bioinformatics courses. Label meaning is the same as in panel (a). Panel (c): Scientific area to which the study path in which the bioinformatics course is delivered belongs. Panel (d): Degree level in which the bioinformatics course is delivered. Panel (e): Type of the course (either mandatory or optional). Panel (f): ECTS attributed to the bioinformatics courses reported in the survey.
Fig 2.
Heat map describing how the different topics are distributed in the bioinformatics courses delivered in different degrees levels (panel (a)) or in study paths belonging to different scientific areas (panel (b)).
Different colors refer to the different percentages of occurrence of each topic in the bioinformatics courses.
Table 2.
Recommended contents for bioinformatics courses embedded in a study path belonging to a BSc degree in life science and medicine scientific area.
Table 3.
Recommended contents for bioinformatics courses embedded in a study path belonging to an MSc degree in the life science and medicine scientific area.
Table 4.
Recommended contents for bioinformatics courses embedded in a study path belonging to a BSc degree in computer science-engineering scientific area.
Table 5.
Recommended contents for bioinformatics courses embedded in a study path belonging to an MSc degree in the computer science-engineering scientific area.