The BREW workshop series: a stimulating experience in PhD education
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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.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Briefings in bioinformatics
دوره 9 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008