Bioinformatics is a highly interdisciplinary field. The bioinformatics workforce encompasses individuals with training in such diverse areas as database management, statistics, algorithms, machine learning, pattern recognition, molecular and cellular biology, genomics, proteomics, and other areas of biology and medicine.

The Greater Philadelphia Bioinformatics Alliance seeks to build an infrastructure to provide industry with talented, well-trained professionals. In addition, the Alliance intends to make it easier for bioinformatics professionals to keep current with all of the advances in the field. The Alliance ’s educational efforts focus on these areas:

• Graduate Education and Training: To strengthen existing research and education in bioinformatics, the Alliance supports internships and fellowships in bioinformatics in academia and industry. Click here to learn about our graduate-level internship program in bioinformatics. There is also a annual retreat. Click here to learn more about our annual retreat.
• Continuing Education: The Alliance sponsors seminars and training sessions in systems biology and bioinformatics to support the continuing education of biomedical and bioinformatics professionals from industry, graduate and advanced undergraduate students, and biomedical, computer science, mathematics and engineering faculty. Several regional institutions host GPBA-sponsored bioinformatics and computational biology seminars:

Multiscale Modeling of Biological Networks and Pathways through the GPBA Computational Orchestra hosted by the Center for Integrated Bioinformatics, Drexel University

Penn Bioinformatics Forum through the Penn Center for Bioinformatics at University of Pennsylvania

Computational Biology Afternoon Tea Series through the Daniel Baugh Institute at Thomas Jefferson University

If you would like to find out more about the Greater Philadelphia Bioinformatics Alliance and join our mailing list, click here.