Bioinformatics Summer Institute

University of Minnesota

Phone: (612) 624-9510
E-mail: alt-format@dtc.umn.edu

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Bioscience Field

Education
Research

Mission

The mission of the Bioinformatics Summer Institute at the University of Minnesota is to provide the highest possible quality undergraduate level education and research experiences in bioinformatics, equipping the new generation of this burgeoning professional community with the tools for a successful career in bioinformatics.

Education and Research Programs

Workshops-Tutorials

The workshops are designed to provide a thorough coverage of bioinformatics topics, and create the necessary background for students to obtain a beginning understanding of the area. They will take place in computer cluster rooms in the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, with each student working on a personal computer. Example workshops are:

Biology for Scientists and Engineers
Introduction to Programming for Biologists
Sequence Analysis, Bioinformatics Resources
Biopolymers
Computational Genomics Algorithms, Data Mining
Biostatistics
Functional and Comparative Genomics
Structural Bioinformatics
Plant Genomics
DNA Microarrays, Microbial Engineering
Bioinformatics-based commercial enterprises