自建和选用微生物信息学平台辅助“生物信息学”课程教学探索

Practice of Bioinformatics teaching assisted by self-customized microbial informatics platforms

摘要:

“生物信息学”课程主要讲授生物信息分析技术及其在动植物和微生物学研究领域中的应用。随着课程涉及的多种信息学分析软件和算法的不断开发和使用，应用领域也在不断拓展，因而其教学内容也需不断发展和更新。本文主要从不断发展和自建的微生物信息学平台如何辅助教学角度，探讨研究生“生物信息学”课程的教学模式及其实践效果。我们基于自建微生物信息学分析平台，以强化研究生解决实际问题和创新能力培养为目标，在教学内容、教学手段、授课方式和考核标准4个方面积极探索，建立了适合我校微生物学相关专业研究生培养目标的课程设置、启发式教学模式和成绩评价方式，促进了研究生培养质量和水平的提升。

Abstract:

Bioinformatics courses aim to introduce computational technology to the scientific community focusing on animal, plant and microbiology, involving analytic program development and its application. With the rapid expansion of life science, the scope of bioinformatics teaching is continuously suffering a variety of improvements. The teaching mode and development facilitated by customized microbial informatics programs were presented in this report. Graduate students’ innovation and abilities were promoted by interactive platform-driven strategy. The content arrangement, teaching style, presentation methods and scoring criterion have been optimized to satisfy graduate academic prerequisites. These beneficial experiences could assist in improving the quality of talent cultivation.