Abstract:
Many areas of science such as biology, medicine, and oceanography are becoming increasingly
data-rich and most programs that train scientists do not address informatics techniques or
technologies that are necessary for managing and analyzing large amounts of data. Educational
resources for scientists in informatics are scarce, yet scientists need the skills and knowledge to
work with informaticians and manage graduate students and post-docs in informatics projects.
The Marine Biological Laboratory houses a world-renowned library and is involved in a number
of informatics projects in the sciences. The MBL has been home to the National Library of
Medicine's BioMedical Informatics Course for nearly two decades and is committed to educating
scientists and other scholars in informatics. In an innovative, immersive learning experience,
Grant Yamashita, a biologist and post-doc at Arizona State University, visited the Science
Informatics Group at MBL to learn first hand how informatics is done and how informatics
teams work. Hands-on work with developers, systems administrators, librarians, and other
scientists provided an invaluable education in informatics and is a model for future science
informatics training.
Description:
Author Posting. © The Authors, 2010. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Oxford University Press for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Briefings in Bioinformatics 6 (2010): 610-615, doi:10.1093/bib/bbq029.
