Bioinformatics Lab Module to Augment Experiential Capstone Courses and Lab Research

With exponential growth in life science research data, familiarity with bioinformatics has become an exciting as well as a popular skill set both in industry and academia. To increase students’ competencies and to get them familiarized with data science professions we implemented a set of bioinformatic exercises into a capstone course of a graduate program. Bioinformatic exercises were designed to teach students to navigate bioinformatic databases, analyze data, and perform R and Python programming. The skillsets imparted by this research-focused bioinformatic pedagogical approach will empower students to be able to leverage this knowledge for their future endeavors in the bioinformatics field.