Bioinformatics Institute is a non-governmental Bioinformatics research and educational institution. The purpose of educational programs is to acquaint students with the main objectives and methods of bioinformatics and with open problems related to this science.  

Every year, Bioinformatics Institute's students work on real research projects. Everything's is remote in the majority of cases. This is a call for such projects: a chance for students to learn and practice real-life applications of their knowledge, and for project supervisors – to develop parts of their projects further or even to mentor a talented future member of their team!

To submit a project, please fill out this form in English. You can submit one or several projects. Please see some examples of rescent projects.

The work with the students will begin in February and will end by 20–25th of May. We have also introduced an interview option. If you want to personally get to know the applicants and choose them for the project yourself, please indicate it in the respective field of this form. 

The project must be:

1. For a team of 2–4 students. In our experience, it is much more productive than personal projects. Exclusions may apply, but we strongly recommend submitting group projects.
2. Simple & realistic. It should be possible for a student to achieve some definitive results during one term – 4 months.
3. With clearly set goals. It should have a clearly formulated objectives and completion criteria.  
4. Educative. It means that you know how to conduct this project yourself, and you can lead a student into the right direction. Students are still learning, so a project's goal is still more educational than professional.

As a supervisor, you will need to meet regularly with your students. We anticipate it will take around 1-3 hours weekly. Additionally, it is supposed that a student approximately 10 hours a week independently.

About 60 students are studying in the bioinformatics program now: biologists, doctors and veterinarians.

During the Fall term, students have successfully mastered basic programming in Python and R, Linux & command line for bioinformatics, solving simple bioinformatics tasks (for example, SNP calling, assembly and annotation of bacterial genomes).

Please note that every project will be reviewed by course team; however, the final decision on whether a project is suitable for students will be made by our scientific mentors. All projects that do not pass this selection will get a consultation with mentors about collaboration formats options.

The course curators will notify you about review result no later than October 29th. We also ask you in advance to prepare a presentation of one or two slides about the goals, tasks, available data, resources the project needs, and the team currently working on the project. This presentation will be equally relevant both for presenting to students and for consultation with the mentors. Please format the text on the slides in English; the spoken language during the presentation should be Russian.

Thank you for your cooperations and supporting bioinformatics education! We highly appreciate your contribution. 

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at info@bioinf.me.