Feasibility and effectiveness of a brief, intensive phylogenetics workshop in a middle-income country
| Autor: | S. Pollett, M. Leguia, M.I. Nelson, I. Maljkovic Berry, G. Rutherford, D.G. Bausch, M. Kasper, R. Jarman, M. Melendrez |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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| Zdroj: | International Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol 42, Iss C, Pp 24-27 (2016) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1201-9712 1878-3511 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ijid.2015.11.001 |
| Popis: | There is an increasing role for bioinformatic and phylogenetic analysis in tropical medicine research. However, scientists working in low- and middle-income regions may lack access to training opportunities in these methods. To help address this gap, a 5-day intensive bioinformatics workshop was offered in Lima, Peru. The syllabus is presented here for others who want to develop similar programs. To assess knowledge gained, a 20-point knowledge questionnaire was administered to participants (21 participants) before and after the workshop, covering topics on sequence quality control, alignment/formatting, database retrieval, models of evolution, sequence statistics, tree building, and results interpretation. Evolution/tree-building methods represented the lowest scoring domain at baseline and after the workshop. There was a considerable median gain in total knowledge scores (increase of 30%, p |
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