Bioinformatics Projects Learning Pathway for Students
First published on Galaxy Training on 3 March 2025. See original blog post
By Wendi Bacon
With a huge thanks to ELIXIR-UK’s DaSH Fellowship funding, we are delighted to present our new Learning Pathway, “Bioinformatics Projects: Using deconvolution to get new insights from old bulk RNA-seq”.
As science moves forward – and indeed, large language models and AI put the final nails in the coffin of education evaluation through recall – project-based learning takes centre stage. Such work develops independent thinking, resilience, initiative, and accountability in students – all key attributes for employability and ultimately advancing science. However, project-based learning is difficult to scale across a student body. Finding project ideas for and working up project ideas with students takes significantly more time than traditional multiple-choice question tests.
So what’s the solution?
Here, we provide a learning pathway of tutorials that can guide students from learning Galaxy to building research questions to analysing results. From finding datasets and converting them to usable formats to benchmarking methods, interpreting quality indicators, and looking through old data to find new results, this Learning Pathway delivers a novel, cutting-edge, and scalable means for students to learn bioinformatics through individual projects.
🎉A big thank you to the passionate team that put this together and to ELIXIR-UK for partially funding this effort!🎉
