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Ten simple rules for organizing a bioinformatics training course in low- and middle-income countries

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Bioinformatics training is required at every stage of a scientist's research career.Continual bioinformatics training allows exposure to an ever-changing and growing repertoire of techniques and databases, and so biologists, computational scientists, and healthcare practitioners are all seeking learning opportunities in the use of computational resources and tools designed for data storage, retrieval, and analysis.TAU : PleasecheckwhethertheeditstothesentenceThereareabundantopportunitiesforaccessing:::areco here are abundant opportunities for accessing bioinformatics training for scientists in high-income countries (HICs), with well-equipped facilities and participants and trainers requiring minimal travel and financial costs alongside a range of general advice for developing short bioinformatics training courses [1-3].However, regionally targeted bioinformatics training in low-and middle-income countries (LAU : Pleasenotethatlow À middleincomecountrieshasbeenc MICs) often requires more extensive local and external support, organization, and travel.Due to the limited expertise in bioinformatics in LMICs in general, most bioinformatics training requires a fair amount of collaboration with experts beyond the local community, country, or region.A common model of training, used as the basis of this article, includes a local host collaborating with local, regional, and international experts gathering to train local or regional participants.Recently, there has been a growth of capacity strengthening initiatives in LMICs, such as the Pan African Bioinformatics Network for Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3ABi-oNet) Initiative [4-6], the Capacity Building for Bioinformatics in Latin America (CABANA) Project [7], the Asia Pacific BioInformatics Network (APBioNet) [8], and the Wellcome Connecting Science Courses and Conferences program [9].One of the important strands of these initiatives is a drive to organize and deliver valuable bioinformatics training, but organizing

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Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research

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FuentePLoS Computational Biology
Cuartil año de publicaciónNo disponible
Volumen17
Issue8
Páginase1009218 - e1009218
pISSN1553-734X
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