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New Online Curriculum: The PDB Pipeline & Data Archiving
02/05 
Drawing from their collective knowledge as structural biologists, data scientists, educators, developers and managers of data resources, the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB) team has created an open access, modular educational curriculum covering concepts, approaches and requirements for developing and managing the data pipeline for a curated public archive of biological experimental data. The online curriculum, available as part of the RCSB PDB-101 education website and also accessible directly via edsb.rcsb.org, makes best practices recommendations for data resource development and management. The intended audience includes scientists, who can use the materials for self-instruction, as well as librarians and information specialists, who can use the materials to develop training services for students, scientists, and staff. In addition, the curriculum is intended to help accelerate development of new data archives for experimental methods used in Integrative Structural Biology. The curriculum is composed of eight modules that can be studied separately or as a complete online course. Materials include professionally produced videos, powerpoint slides, and exercises that guide students step-by-step to design, create, and query their own data archive. This education development project was funded by National Institutes of Health National Library of Medicine as part of the NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Initiative (R25 LM012286).
