[en] [en] MOTIVATION: Developing competency in the broad area of bioinformatics is challenging globally, owing to the breadth of the field and the diversity of its audiences for education and training. Course design can be facilitated by the use of a competency framework-a set of competency requirements that define the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed by individuals in (or aspiring to be in) a particular profession or role. These competency requirements can help to define curricula as they can inform both the content and level to which competency needs to be developed. The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) developed a list of bioinformatics competencies in 2014, and these have undergone several rounds of improvement. In consultation with a broad bioinformatics training community, these have now been further refined and extended to include knowledge skills and attitudes, and mappings to previous and other existing competency frameworks.
RESULTS: Here, we present version 3 of the ISCB competency framework. We describe how it was developed and how to access it, as well as providing some examples of how it has been used.
AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The framework is openly accessible at https://competency.ebi.ac.uk/framework/iscb/3.0/competencies.
Disciplines :
Biochemistry, biophysics & molecular biology
Author, co-author :
Brooksbank, Cath ; EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
Brazas, Michelle D; Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, ON M5G 0A3, Canada
Mulder, Nicola; Computational Biology Division, Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, 7925, South Africa
Schwartz, Russell ; Department of Biological Sciences and Computational Biology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States
Ras, Verena; Computational Biology Division, Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, 7925, South Africa
Morgan, Sarah L; EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
Lloret Llinares, Marta ; EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
Carvajal López, Patricia ; EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
Larcombe, Lee; Nexastem Ltd, St Neots, Cambridgeshire PE19 6AD, United Kingdom
Ghouila, Amel; Computational Biology Division, Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, 7925, South Africa
Hancocks, Tom; EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
SATAGOPAM, Venkata ; University of Luxembourg > Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) > Clinical and Translational Informatics
De Las Rivas, Javier ; Cancer Research Center (CiC-IBMCC), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) and University of Salamanca (USAL), Salamanca 37007, Spain
Mazandu, Gaston ; Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, 7925, South Africa
Gaeta, Bruno; School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
National Institutes of Health Ontario Institute for Cancer Research Government of Ontario European Molecular Biology Laboratory European Union Horizon 2020 programme European Union Horizon 2020 programme
Funding text :
This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health Common Fund H3ABioNet [U24HG006941 to N.M. and V.R.]; the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, with funding provided by the Government of Ontario [to M.D.B.]; the European Molecular Biology Laboratory [to C.B., S.L.M., P.C.-L., T.H. and M.L.-L.]; the CABANA project [BB/P027849/1 to C.B., S.L.M. and P.C.-L.]; by BioExcel which is funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 programme under grant agreements [823830, 675728 to M.L.-L]; by PerMedCoE which is funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 programme under grant agreement [951773 to M.L.-L.] The development of the Competency Hub, through which the ISCB Competency Framework has been made available, has been supported by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, BioExcel and PerMedCoE.
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