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Fig. 16.3 The docking portlet of the MoSGrid portal is shown, as it is displayed for the students.
The layer in the
background
corresponds to the monitoring tab. Docking result
files from students
projects are shown in plain text in the
middle layer
, while the
top layer
highlights bound ligands
visualized with ChemDoodle
layered architecture of the portal, unforeseeable failures of the infrastructure can
cause severe disturbance. Also, it reveals that single points of failure can affect the
complete course structure. Hence, it is necessary to provide at least previously
generated data, which can be used by the students to demonstrate their gained
knowledge and therefore lay a foundation for later grading.
16.3.3 Teaching with the Neuroscience Gateway
at the University of Amsterdam
The University of Amsterdam offers a master program in biomedical sciences. This
program includes a regular course on
“
Advanced Cognitive Neurobiology and
Clinical Neurophysiology
, which is partly hosted by researchers of the Academic
Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam (AMC). The goal of the course is
to familiarize students with brain imaging research, and to gain experience with its
entire processing pipeline from data acquisition to data organization and analysis.
The course includes lectures on magnetic resonance imaging, data analysis methods
and tools, and application cases.
The master students typically have no experience with image acquisition,
advanced neuroimaging analysis methods, command-line interfaces, and distributed
computing. Their background makes it dif
”
cult for them to run the data analysis
tools, which are mostly triggered from command-line interfaces and may take a few
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