This project involved the development and maintenance of the official website for the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) Forum on Bioinformatics Education 2022.
Background
The LAC Forum on Bioinformatics Education 2022 is a working meeting for representatives and parties interested in generating, including or maintaining academic programs in bioinformatics, genomic sciences, computational biology and related disciplines; all geolocated within the Latin American and Caribbean regions. The forum was held virtually within the framework of the series of tutorials and workshops of the conference ISCB-Latin America SoIBio BioNetMX Conference on Bioinformatics 2022, on November 7, 2022.
In general, different topics of interest related to the strengthening of bioinformatics in educational programs, whether undergraduate, master, PhD or specialization, are discussed; promote the inclusion of bioinformatics curricula in the life sciences; and address current challenges in the region, such as common infrastructures and decentralization of education/research.
Specifically, the event addressed the following topics:
- Bioinformatics for Life Sciences Careers
- Infrastructure: from language barriers to computing infrastructure
- Decentralization at regional, national and continental level
Additional information
To learn more about the project, the community, and the technical implementation, you can explore the LACBioinfoEdForum website and its source code.