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S* Alliance Announces Fifth Online Bioinformatics Course

April 7th 2004.

The S* Life Science Informatics Alliance announced today that the S* 5th Online Bioinformatics Course will be held from 3rd May 2004 to 16th August 2004. To date, S* has enrolled more than 700 participants from throughout the world. In collaboration with the APBioNet, many participants come from the Asia-Pacific region including Singapore, Malaysia, India, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Korea, Japan and other countries, benefitting particularly young aspiring bioinformaticians, who would otherwise be deprived of such advancement opportunity.

As in the previous four courses, all lessons and assessments will be conducted online and the students will have the opportunity to participate in online discussions with the lecturers and volunteer teaching assistants. Topics covered include Genomics and Computational Molecular Biology Genomics, An Overview of the Computational Analysis of Biological Sequences, Comparative Genomics, Transcript Analysis, Representations and Algorithms for Computational Molecular Biology, Protein and Nucleic Acid Structure, Dynamics, and Engineering, Protein Structure Primer, Protein Structure Prediction, Structure Prediction for Macromolecular Interactions, Protein-Ligand Modeling, Proteomics, Proteomes: Proteins Expressed as a Genome, Protein Physics, Microarray Data Analysis with reowned professors including Russ Altman, Michael Levitt, Douglas Brutlag, Subbiah S, Liping Wei, Winston Hide, Shoba Ranganathan, Betty Cheng, Julie Mitchell, Lynn Ten Eyck, Marc Wilkins, Jan-Olov.Hoog and Mark Reimers.

This year, the S* Alliance is pleased to announce the inclusion of more hands-on tutorials as well as a new Problem-Based Learning (PBL) module to encourage hand-on and critical thinking among participants through participation of group projects. "At the end of the PBL, we hope to encourage participants to engage the problems they face in life and career with initiative and enthusiasm and to instill the participants with the sense of team sprit and co-operation" said S* Chairperson, Professor Shoba Ranganathan. For a start, the PBLs will be conducted on an experimental basis, through the Internet low-bandwidth audio-conferencing system at emeet.nus.edu.sg, facilitated by the Centre for Instructional Technology, National University of Singapore.

In recent months, the S* Alliance have been receiving numerous requests by teaching institutions to adopt S* course material as a component of their teaching materials. Many institutions have also requested to mirror the S* course material locally. At the same time, many participants have expressed an interest in having transcripts to certify to their own institutions that they have successfully completed S* online courses. To provide an added incentive for students to work hard at the online courses, the S* Secretariat is pleased to announce that S* Transcripts will be issued by the Secretariat on behalf of all the alliance members for future participants with effect from April 2004. A transcript processing fee of US$50 will be levied to cover administration and postage costs. Otherwise, the S* course is entirely free.



About S* Alliance
S* Alliance is a collaboration among top universities/institutes in five continents, namely University of Sydney in Australia; Karolinska Institutet and University of Uppsala, in Sweden; National University of Singapore in Asia; South Africa National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and Stanford University, USA plus a recent addition, University of California San Diego (USCD). The S*Star group of teaching institutions have formed a global alliance to provide a global, unified bioinformatics learning environment (GLOBULE) made up of modular courses in the disciplines of genomics, bioinformatics, and medical informatics. It is best known for its S* Alliance Online Bioinformatics Course http://www.s-star.org/.

About APBioNet
The Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet) is a non-profit, non-governmental, international organization founded in 1998. It focuses on the promotion of bioinformatics in the Asia Pacific Region. Since 1998, its mission has been to pioneer the growth and development of bioinformatics awareness, training, education, infrastructure, resources and research amongst member countries and economies. APBioNet has more than 20 organizational and 400 individual members from over 12 countries in the Asia Pacific region, and members include those from industry, academia, research, government, investors and international organizations. APBioNet has coordinated or co-organized more than 20 international and national meetings in cooperation with members in different economies. It is spearheading a number of key bioinformatics initiatives in the region in collaboration with international organizations such as APAN, APEC, S* Alliance and A-IMBN. More about APBioNet can be found at: http://www.apbionet.org/.



Press Contact
Victor Tong
S* Course Coordinator
Email: victor@s-star.org

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