Chapter 7: Learning from the bioinformatics leader laboratories

If the laboratory is only able to hire 1 bioinformatician, they should help ensure that the bioinformatician has mentors or collaborators to ensure their analyses are both sound and reproducible. For state bioinformaticians, resources include the below:

Resources	Description	Contact
State Public Health Bioinformatics (StaPH-B)	Consists of 3 groups, including bioinformatics development, the steering committee, and general members.	Awaiting permission to put names for all categories.
CDC Office of Advanced Molecular Detection (OAMD)	Maintains the OAMD Portal and works with the CDC high performance compute cluster.
Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL)
Bioinformatics Leader Laboratories	AMD has designated training and bioinformatics leads. Training leads conduct regional needs assessments, and then conduct and evaluate trainings. Bioinformatics leads will provide technical support and consultation and help develop bioinformatics analysis resources.	As of 2018, the different regions and their leader laboratories are Northeast - MA (both); Mid-Atlantic - VA (both); Southeast - GA (training), FL (bioinformatics), Mountain - WY (training), CO (bioinformatics); Central - MN (both); West - WA (both).