Addressing the Digital Divide in Contemporary Biology: Lessons from Teaching UNIX

Serghei Mangul; Lana S. Martin; Alexander Hoffmann; Matteo Pellegrini; Eleazar Eskin

doi:10.1016/j.tibtech.2017.06.007

Addressing the Digital Divide in Contemporary Biology: Lessons from Teaching UNIX

Serghei Mangul^*, Lana S. Martin, Alexander Hoffmann, Matteo Pellegrini, Eleazar Eskin

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Abstract

Life and medical science researchers increasingly rely on applications that lack a graphical interface. Scientists who are not trained in computer science face an enormous challenge analyzing high-throughput data. We present a training model for use of command-line tools when the learner has little to no prior knowledge of UNIX.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	901-903
Number of pages	3
Journal	Trends in biotechnology
Volume	35
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tibtech.2017.06.007
State	Published - Oct 2017

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command line interface
computational biology
education
training

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Biotechnology
Bioengineering

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