Briefings in Bioinformatics Advance Access published online on January 23, 2008
Briefings in Bioinformatics, doi:10.1093/bib/bbn002
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The BREW workshop series: a stimulating experience in PhD education
Corresponding author. Robert Giegerich, Center of Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, Postfach 10 01 31, D-33501 Bielefeld, Germany. Tel: +49 521 1062913; Fax: +49 521 1066411; E-mail: robert{at}techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
Over recent years, five European PhD programmes have organized a series of Bioinformatics Research and Education Workshops. These workshops address the needs of first-year PhD students and have been designed to combine a maximum of educational impact and scientific stimulation with a minimum of financial and administrative effort. We describe the BREW experience and argue that this type of event constitutes an attractive component of PhD education in computational biology and beyond.
Keywords: Bioinformatics Education, PhD student conference
Submitted: December 19, 2007. Received (in revised form): December 21, 2007.