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The Canadian Bioinformatics Workshops began offering the 2-day advanced topic workshops in 2008. All workshop material is licensed under a Creative Commons-Share Alike 2.5 license and is available on the Bioinformatics.ca website. The CBW is sponsored by the Canadian Institute of Health Research and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research.
Women, Food and Agriculture Network (WFAN) is a non-profit organization that provides networking, education and leadership development for women in sustainable agriculture and food systems development. [1] Programming focused mainly in the Midwest, such as an Iowa program called "Women Caring for the Land". [2]
The Canadian Bioinformatics Workshops provides videos and slides from training workshops on their website under a Creative Commons license. The 4273π project or 4273pi project [ 70 ] also offers open source educational materials for free.
Farmers have manipulated plants and animals through selective breeding for decades of thousands of years in order to create desired traits. In the 20th century, a surge in technology resulted in an increase in agricultural biotechnology through the selection of traits like the increased yield, pest resistance, drought resistance, and herbicide resistance.
Biodiversity informatics is the application of informatics techniques to biodiversity information, such as taxonomy, biogeography or ecology.It is defined as the application of Information technology technologies to management, algorithmic exploration, analysis and interpretation of primary data regarding life, particularly at the species level organization. [1]
During her tenure at Michigan State University, Teal became an instructor for Software Carpentry, an organization that teaches software development to researchers.She and a team of collaborators developed Data Carpentry based on the Software Carpentries model, developing curricula and leading workshops for researchers to increase data literacy in the age of big data.
The Supercomputing Facility for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, (SCFBio), IIT Delhi, was established in July 2002 with funding from Department of Biotechnology under the guidance of Prof. B. Jayaram. It aims at developing novel scientific methods and new software for genome analysis, protein structure prediction, and in silico drug ...
Following her formal education, Lawrence-Dill served for two years as a postdoctoral researcher under the direction of Volker Brendel [2] at Iowa State University. In the summer of 2005, Lawrence-Dill began work as a research geneticist for the USDA-ARS. She served as the director of MaizeGDB, the maize model organism database through December ...