Software Engineering Education for Bioinformatics

As software engineering educators, it is important for us to realize the increasing domainspecificity of software, and incorporate these changes in our design of teaching material. Bioinformatics software is an example of immensely complex and critical scientific software and this domain provides an excellent illustration of the role of computing in the life sciences. To study bioinformatics from a software engineering standpoint, we conducted an exploratory survey of bioinformatics developers. The survey had a range of questions about people, processes and products. As software engineering educators, we realized that the survey results had important implications for the education of bioinformatics professionals. We also investigated the current status of software engineering education in bioinformatics, by examining the curricula of more than fifty bioinformatics programs and the contents of over fifteen textbooks. We observed that there was no mention of the role and importance of s...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: CSEE
• Authors: Medha Umarji, Carolyn B. Seaman, Akif Günes Koru, Hongfang Liu
• Keywords: Bioinformatics, CSEE 2009, Software Engineering, Software Engineering Educators