"Bioinformatics: introduction and methods," a bilingual Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) as a new example for global bioinformatics education

PLoS Comput Biol. 2014 Dec 11;10(12):e1003955. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003955. eCollection 2014 Dec.

¹ Center for Bioinformatics, State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
² National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China; Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
³ Center for Bioinformatics, State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, People's Republic of China; Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
⁴ Center for Bioinformatics, State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, People's Republic of China; National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China.

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This work was supported by Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31025014, No. 81171221) (URL of funder: http://www.nsfc.gov.cn/publish/portal1/), Ministry of Science and Technology of China (No. 2012CB837600) (URL of funder: http://www.most.gov.cn/eng/), and Ministry of Education 111 Project (URL of funder: http://www.moe.edu.cn/publicfiles/business/htmlfiles/moe/moe_2792/index.html). The funders had no role in the preparation of the manuscript.