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Education and Training

Training and education programs, including on-line tutorials, to assure 24-hour guidance and assistance, workshops, and seminars, as well as presentations at Cancer Center research group seminars or retreats is an important component of the Core's services to users. These activities will be made available during the first year of operation. Educational programs will provide information on the underlying data structures, methods for viewing and querying the data resources and downstream analyses to find concordance between phenotype and genotype data. The Biomedical Informatics Core will also work closely with other Cancer Center Shared Resources to ensure that its educational programs include information on biostatistics analysis methods, data mining techniques (also, KDD -- knowledge discovery from databases) and molecular data analyses. In addition to these activities, the Facility Director and staff are available to for one-on-one sessions with investigators on the use of data sources, how core services can support their research, as well as analysis tools offered by the Core. These educational experiences help investigators improve the design of their experiments and to appropriately use and interpret information provided by the Core in their basic and clinical research.