Conference to Promote Bioinformatics Education
By Ronald Roach
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in association with the National Science Foundation, software firm Geospiza Inc. and Sun Microsystems are hosting a meeting to promote the teaching of bioinformatics in undergraduate education. The meeting will include hands-on practice with genomics, proteomics, microarrays and structural bioinformatics, in addition to discussions about how bioinformatics materials can be integrated into biology courses. The two-day event will be in Chapel Hill on Oct. 17-18.
