1. Bioinformatics Consortium – Educational Program

2. Education EMPOWER. PARTNER. LEAD. Consortium Goals Develop collaborative undergraduate and graduate programs in bioinformatics –Modeled on the undergraduate minor program in computational science –Focus on competencies required for well-prepared students Take advantage of OSC computational resources for instruction and research

3. Education EMPOWER. PARTNER. LEAD. Partipating Institutions Bowling GreenThe Ohio State University CaseUniversity of Akron Central StateUniversity of Cincinnati Clark StateUniversity of Toledo MiamiWittenberg University Ohio UniversityWright State University

4. Education EMPOWER. PARTNER. LEAD. Example of Courses Being Offered Now Bioinformatics Applications of Bioinformatics/Proteomics/Genomics Bioinformatics computation Advanced topics in biomedical data management Advanced computational biology Total of 33 courses across the partner institutions

5. Education EMPOWER. PARTNER. LEAD. Issues Impacting Bioscience Cluster Significant number of novice users at OSC Need for portals to make job submission/retrieval and instruction easier Require quick turn-around for classroom demonstration and class use Need new mechanisms for faculty to inform OSC about class assignment schedule and computational needs Graduate/research users will also require workflow tools and ways to manage a large number of datasets