The GEP: Crowd-Sourcing Big Data Analysis with Undergraduates

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• 作者：Sarah C.R. Elgin¹ ; ^{selgin@wustl.edu} ; Charles Hauser² ; Teresa M. Holzen³ ; Christopher Jones⁴ ; Adam Kleinschmit⁵ ; Judith Leatherman⁶ ; The Genomics Education Partnership⁷
• 关键词：undergraduate research ; science education ; bioinformatics ; CURE (course-based undergraduate research experience) ; crowd-sourcing science
• 刊名：Trends in Genetics
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：33
• 期：2
• 页码：81-85
• 全文大小：704 K
• 卷排序：33

文摘

The era of ‘big data’ is also the era of abundant data, creating new opportunities for student–scientist research partnerships. By coordinating undergraduate efforts, the Genomics Education Partnership produces high-quality annotated data sets and analyses that could not be generated otherwise, leading to scientific publications while providing many students with research experience.