Happy Belly Bioinformatics: an open-source resource dedicated to helping biologists utilize bioinformatics

Abstract

Our civilization’s ability to generate data has far surpassed our current, collective capabilities to efficiently access and utilize it. And while the necessary educational infrastructure is trying to adapt and grow as quickly as possible, many graduate students, postdocs, faculty, and other researchers have found ourselves in situations where self-education with little direction is the only option available. This can make it difficult to get through the initial steep learning curve of beginning to use bioinformatics effectively – particularly when this is expected to happen alongside all of our other research and educational responsibilities.