I've just posted the following announcement to bionet. We are keen to have
PPS2-students involved in our course on Biocomputing - Sequence Analysis,
and it should be possible to admit 2-3 PPS2-students without a formal
"Consulting Student" engagement. This cannot be decided
before mid-April, though, and I'd suggest that you subscribe to
our vsns-bcd-prospective mailing list (see below),
and if the registration form comes up approx. April 15 - April 18,
(this will be announced on the vsns-bcd-prospective list),
you just state that you're a PPS2 student.
Of course, if you'd like to act as a "Consulting Student", you'll be
more than welcome, just email me ;-)
-- best wishes, georg fuellen@dali.Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE, fuellen@MIT.EDU http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/techfak/persons/fuellen/georgF.html============================ After the successful completion of the 1995 GNA-VSNS Biocomputing Course (see our homepage at http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/bcd/welcome.html, OR http://merlin.mbcr.bcm.tmc.edu:8001/bcd/welcome.html, OR http://info.mcc.ac.uk/hpctec/courses/Biocomputing/vsns/bcd/welcome.html ) we are now preparing for the second edition, starting approx. April 29, and lasting for approx. 11 weeks. The entire course material will be delivered through the Internet, and instruction will take place via the electronic conferencing system BioMOO at Weizmann Institute, Israel.
We are once again looking for "Consulting Students", i.e. students who are guaranteed admission in return for helping us in technical and administrative matters. If you're seriously interested in any of these "jobs", please contact the course coordinator, vsns-bcd-admcoord@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Georg Fuellen) as soon as possible !
Enrollment into the Summer 1996 course may be limited to approx. 30 students (depending on the availability of instructors), so this is your excellent chance for getting a free ticket to an exciting, cutting-edge learning experience in biocomputing ! If you are _not_ interested in any of these "jobs", the one and only thing you can do right now is to subscribe to our vsns-bcd-prospective mailing list, by sending email to majordomo@hrz.uni-bielefeld.de, with no subject, and the following body: subscribe vsns-bcd-prospective and wait for the announcement of more 1996 consulting student jobs, etc !
See below to read our disclaimer, and our GNA Course Catalog entry. The latter lists the *technical and academic requirements*.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The following "jobs" are available right now. The most recent version of this list will be kept at http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/bcd/Adm/recruit.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
"Job" #BCD-96-14 (last revised Fri Mar 15 12:22:21 MET 1996) "Evaluation of questionaires and forms" ===================================================================
You will tally (and evaluate) the results of the registration and mid-term Questionaires.
You need: Knowledge of a statistics package and HTML. Perl helpful.
Your benefit: You are admitted to the course as a "Consulting Student". Large part of your work helps you directly in your understanding of Online Distance Education, and Biocomputing.
"Job" #BCD-96-10 "Help-Guide : PC-platform" ==========================================
More info: You will help students on a PC-platform to get and install good MOO/WWW clients, and be the lead person for answering other platform-specific questions.
You need: Familiarity with PC software, in particular WWW-browsers. You do not need to know about MOO clients yet, but you will need to investigate them in greater detail.
Your benefit: You are admitted to the course as a "Consulting Student". You will learn more about PCs, and other people's PC's ;-)
"Job" #BCD-96-13 "Help-Guide : UNIX-platform" ==========================================
More info: You will help students on a UNIX-platform to get and install good MOO/WWW clients, and be the lead person for answering other platform-specific questions.
You need: Familiarity with UNIX software, in particular WWW-browsers. You don't need to know about MOO clients yet, but you will need to investigate them in greater detail.
Your benefit: You are admitted to the course as a "Consulting Student". You will learn more about UNIX, and other people's workstations ;-)
"Job" #BCD-96-09 "BioMOO Help-Guide" ==========================================
More info: You will introduce instructors, students, etc to BioMOO.
You need: Familiarity with BioMOO basic commands.
Your benefit: You are admitted to the course as a "Consulting Student". This job is also a perfect way of getting into contact with lots of interesting people.
"Job" #BCD-96-16 (4-5 positions) "Bioperl Project" =================
More info: You will code a small portion of software for the "Bioperl" project, see http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/bcd/Tec/Bioperl/welcome.html For future editions of the Biocomputing Course, some of the objects and object methods developed for Bioperl shall be used as a foundation for sequence management support in our electronic classroom at BioMOO.
You need: Familiarity with Perl.
Your benefit: You are admitted to the course as a "Consulting Student". You'll learn a lot by participating in a collaborative project.
"Job" #BCD-96-15 (4-5 positions) "Practice Sessions Guinea Pig" ==============================
More info: You will be 1-2 weeks ahead of the other students, stumbling across the few glitches that are still present in the course material.
You need: Familiarity with BioMOO basic commands. It's sufficient to spend 1 hour on the BioMOO tutorial, which you're pointed to whenever you connect as a guest.
Your benefit: You are admitted to the course as a "Consulting Student". Note that this "job" is usually oversubscribed, and you should state a "second choice" as well.
"Job" #BCD-96-12 "BioMOO Building Consultant" ==========================================
More info: You will help instructors and students to construct rooms and other utilities at BioMOO.
You need: Familiarity with BioMOO building commands. No knowledge of MOO programming is expected, although it would be useful.
Your benefit: You are admitted to the course as a "Consulting Student". You will learn a lot more about MOOing.
"Job" #BCD-96-09 "Art Director" =================
More info: You will create a few images and diagrams for the course.
You need: Experience w/ appropriate tools, most preferably xfig, but others (or more specialized ones) are OK, too.
Your benefit: You are admitted to the course as a "Consulting Student". Large part of your work helps you directly in your understanding of preparing diagrams, and Biocomputing.
"Job" #BCD-96-05 (revised description Wed Mar 13) "Java programming" (1-2 positions) ================================
You will contribute towards the development of a Multiple Alignment teaching tool in Java.
You need: Some Java experience. Most likely, one experienced person is available for questions.
Your benefit: You are admitted to the course as a "Consulting Student". Large part of your work helps you directly in your understanding of Biocomputing, and coding.
"Job" #BCD-96-02 (last revised Fri Mar 15 12:22:21 MET 1996) "Organize On-line Plenary Discussions at BioMOO" ================================================
More info: You will organize an electronic conference of "Ethics in Biocomputing", and possibly on "The Future of Biocomputing".
You need: Good communication skills, HTML and MOO experience helpful.
Your benefit: If you like, you are admitted to the course as a "Consulting Student". This job is also a perfect way of getting into contact with lots of interesting people.
"Job" #BCD-96-06 (last revised Fri Mar 15 12:22:21 MET 1996) "Web Surfer" ==========================
You will maintain some of the Resource Lists at http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/bcd/resources.html (i.e. ``Info about Writing Hypertext Books'', and ``Info about Conducting Online Classes.''
You need: HTML knowledge, and Web-surfing experience. You should be able to try out online conferencing tools.
Your benefit: You are admitted to the course as a "Consulting Student". Large part of your work helps you directly in your understanding of Biocomputing and Distance Education on the WWW.
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Our disclaimer:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> IN NO EVENT SHALL THE GLOBEWIDE NETWORK ACADEMY, THE VIRTUAL SCHOOL OF NATURAL SCIENCES, BIOMOO, OR ANY OTHER PARTICIPATING VOLUNTEERS BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE PARTICIPATION IN THIS CLASS, AND/OR OUT OF THE USE OF THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THIS CLASS, EVEN IF THE GLOBEWIDE NETWORK ACADEMY, THE VIRTUAL SCHOOL OF NATURAL SCIENCES, BIOMOO, OR ANY OTHER PARTICIPATING VOLUNTEER HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
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Global Network Academy (GNA) course catalog entry:
Title: Biocomputing I: Sequence Analysis
Main Coordinator: Georg Fuellen, M.Sc. (MIT, 1994), Diplom-Inform. (Saarbruecken, 1992).
For up-to-date information, and to obtain a list of all collaborators, please use a www/hypertext browser (e.g. Netscape, Mosaic, Lynx) to visit http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/bcd/welcome.html
Description: Graduate students and students close to the completion of their undergraduate studies shall be given a profound introduction into biosequence analysis and comparison. Instructors shall guide them through a peer-reviewed hypertext book, by means of weekly online discussion sessions, supplemented by homework, personal advice, mailing list discussions, and project work.
The core units shall cover Pairwise Alignment, Networking, Multiple Alignment, Mathematical Analysis of Sequence Data, and Genetic Algorithms and Protein Folding (Teaser Chapter).
Sponsors: VSNS, Association for the Promotion of Science and Humanities in Germany, Research Group in Practical Computer Science (Univ. of Bielefeld) Instructor's email address: (PLEASE VISIT OUR HOMEPAGE FIRST !) vsns-bcd-admcoord@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de Schedule: Regular intervals throughout the week (to be announced) ~11 weeks, expected to start around April 29, 1996 Location: BioMOO (telnet bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il 8888) Level: late undergraduate (senior) or early graduate Credits: None. Language of Instruction: English Status: under construction (registration is scheduled for early April 1996.) Requirements: Technical: telnet, www/hypertext browser supporting black&white graphics, and forms. Academic: undergraduate level maths experience, computer science and/or molecular biology.