A Core Competencies

The activities in this miniCURE address several core concepts and competencies as identified by professional societies and working groups. The table below lists the relevant core concepts and competencies from the following sources:

• Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education AAAS report
• Bioinformatics core competencies for undergraduate life sciences education by NIBLSE

Vision and Change

Concepts 5: SYSTEMS: Living systems are interconnected and interacting. Competencies 1: Ability to apply the process of science 2: Ability to use quantitative reasoning 4: Ability to tap into the interdisciplinary nature of science 5: Ability to communicate and collaborate with other disciplines 6: Ability to understand the relationship between science and society

Bioinformatics

C1: Explain the role of computation and data mining in addressing hypothesis-driven and hypothesis-generating questions within the life sciences C3: Apply statistical concepts used in bioinformatics C4: Use bioinformatics tools to examine complex biological problems in evolution, information flow, and other important areas of biology C5: Find, retrieve, and organize various types of biological data C6: Explore and/or model biological interactions, networks and data integration using bioinformatics

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