Mapping educational needs in bioinformatics in Brazil: adapting ISCB 3.0 competencies to a regional context
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Abstract
Motivation: Bioinformatics drives modern biological discovery, and Brazil has become an important contributor to genomics and computational biology. However, bioinformatics education across the country struggles to meet diverse regional and professional demands. To respond to these challenges, the Regional Student Group of Brazil created an Educational Committee in 2019 to expand Portuguese-language resources and evaluate national training needs. Here, we apply the Core Competency 3.0 framework to establish a seven-domain training model spanning foundational biological, statistical, and computational skills, ethical principles, applied bioinformatics practices, communication abilities, and continuous professional development. Results: A nationwide survey of 375 respondents from more than 21 Brazilian states revealed pronounced geographic and career-based disparities in bioinformatics training. Individuals who primarily use bioinformatics tools, largely students, showed strong interest in phylogenetics and evolutionary analyses, while those focused on software and tool development prioritized computational methods. These findings demonstrate how educational needs differ across profiles and regions, emphasizing the importance of localized strategies to address Brazil's heterogeneous training landscape. Unlike broad competency frameworks, this data-driven approach identifies specific gaps and areas of high demand. Availability and implementation: By integrating these insights, the Regional Student Group of Brazil proposes an equitable and scalable education model that supports curriculum development and helps strengthen training in regions with limited opportunities, offering a framework adaptable to global scientific communities facing similar socioeconomic challenges.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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