Diversifying the genomic data science research community
- The Genomic Data Science Community Network1
- 2Clovis Community College, Fresno, CA 93730, USA;
- 3Biology Department, El Paso Community College, El Paso, TX 79924, USA;
- 4US Fish and Wildlife (Northwest Indian College), Onalaska, WI 54650, USA;
- 5Biology Department, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA 30314, USA;
- 6Turtle Mountain Community College, Belcourt, ND 58316, USA;
- 7Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA;
- 8Biology Department, Claflin University, Orangeburg, SC 29115, USA;
- 9Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA;
- 10National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA;
- 11Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA;
- 12Smithsonian Institute National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20560, USA;
- 13Guttman Community College, New York, NY 10018, USA;
- 14Department of Microbiology and Biomedical Sciences, Dine College, Tuba City, AZ 86045, USA;
- 15Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA;
- 16Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA;
- 17Department of Biology, Northern Virginia Community College–Alexandria, Alexandria, VA 22311, USA;
- 18Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO 81301, USA;
- 19Department of Neurobiology, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30310, USA;
- 20Science and Technology, Universidad Ana G. Méndez–Carolina, Carolina, 00983, Puerto Rico;
- 21Natural Sciences Department, University of Puerto Rico at Aguadilla, Aguadilla, 00603, Puerto Rico;
- 22Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA 95343, USA;
- 23School of Graduate Studies and Research, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN 37208, USA;
- 24Department of Biological Sciences and Border Biomedical Research Center, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA;
- 25Department of Math, Statistics, and Data Science, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD 20850, USA;
- 26Departments of Biology and Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA;
- 27Chemical and Biological Sciences, Montgomery College, Germantown, MD 20876, USA;
- 28Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico–Ponce, Ponce, 00732, Puerto Rico;
- 29Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA;
- 30National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA;
- 31Department of Biology, Flathead Valley Community College, Kalispell, MT 59901, USA;
- 32Department of Biology, Nevada State College, Henderson, NV 89002, USA;
- 33Department of Biology, Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA 23806, USA;
Abstract
Over the past 20 years, the explosion of genomic data collection and the cloud computing revolution have made computational and data science research accessible to anyone with a web browser and an internet connection. However, students at institutions with limited resources have received relatively little exposure to curricula or professional development opportunities that lead to careers in genomic data science. To broaden participation in genomics research, the scientific community needs to support these programs in local education and research at underserved institutions (UIs). These include community colleges, historically Black colleges and universities, Hispanic-serving institutions, and tribal colleges and universities that support ethnically, racially, and socioeconomically underrepresented students in the United States. We have formed the Genomic Data Science Community Network to support students, faculty, and their networks to identify opportunities and broaden access to genomic data science. These opportunities include expanding access to infrastructure and data, providing UI faculty development opportunities, strengthening collaborations among faculty, recognizing UI teaching and research excellence, fostering student awareness, developing modular and open-source resources, expanding course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs), building curriculum, supporting student professional development and research, and removing financial barriers through funding programs and collaborator support.
Footnotes
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↵1 A complete list of GDSCN participants appears at the end of this paper.
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[Supplemental material is available for this article.]
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Article published online before print. Article, supplemental material, and publication date are at https://www.genome.org/cgi/doi/10.1101/gr.276496.121.
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Freely available online through the Genome Research Open Access option.
- Received January 19, 2022.
- Accepted June 2, 2022.
This article, published in Genome Research, is available under a Creative Commons License (Attribution 4.0 International), as described at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
