Involving undergraduates in genomics research to narrow the education-research gap
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Bioinformatics, Genomics, Science and Medical Education
- Keywords
- undergraduates, education-research gap, genomic data, lab productivity, pedagogically flexible, education, undergraduate research experience, genomic research
- Copyright
- © 2017 Mangul et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2017. Involving undergraduates in genomics research to narrow the education-research gap. PeerJ Preprints 5:e3149v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3149v1
Abstract
While the benefits of undergraduate research experiences (UREs) are recognized for undergraduates, the advantages of UREs for graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, and faculty are not clearly outlined. The analysis of genomic data is particularly well-suited for successful involvement of undergraduates. We offer a framework for engaging undergraduates in genomics research while simultaneously improving lab productivity. The proposed strategy can be easily reproduced at other institutions, is pedagogically flexible, and is scalable from smaller to larger laboratory sizes. We hope that genomics researchers will involve undergraduates in more computational tasks that benefit both students and senior laboratory members.
Author Comment
This is a preprint submission to PeerJ Preprints.
