Background Building on initial work carried out by the Faculty of Clinical Informatics (FCI) in
the UK, the creation of a national competency framework for Clinical Informatics is required …

The primary problem with the explosion of biomedical datasets is not the data, not
computational resources, and not the required storage space, but the general lack of trained …

Bioinformaticians and biologists rely increasingly upon workflows for the flexible utilization of
the many life science tools that are needed to optimally convert data into knowledge. We …

The PSIRED Workbench is a long established and popular bioinformatics web service
offering a wide range of machine learning based analyses for characterizing protein …

Objectives Until this point there was no national core competency framework for clinical
informatics in the UK. We report on the final two iterations of work carried out in the formation …

Dispersed across the Internet is an abundance of disparate, disconnected training
information, making it hard for researchers to find training opportunities that are relevant to …

The corpus of bioinformatics resources is huge and expanding rapidly, presenting life
scientists with a growing challenge in selecting tools that fit the desired purpose. To address …

As the life sciences have become more data intensive, the pressure to incorporate the
requisite training into life-science education and training programs has increased. To …

Abstract Background The United Kingdom's Faculty of Clinical Informatics (FCI) embarked
on the creation of a core competency framework in response to the need to provide support …

Reproducibility of computational research is often challenging despite established
guidelines and best practices. Translating these guidelines into practical applications …