Tested Studies for Laboratory Teaching (ABLE Proceedings)

Title:

Laboratories for Integrating Bioinformatics into the Life Sciences - Part II

Url:

http://www.ableweb.org/volumes/vol-37/v37reprint.php?ch=6

Author:

Letitia Reichart
William McClung
Mark Pauley
Dawn Simon
Neal Grandgenett
Garry Duncan
William Tapprich

Author's Address:

Nebraska Wesleyan University, Biology Department, NE
University of Nebraska at Kearney, Department of Biology, NE
University of Nebraska at Omaha, Department of Biology, Omaha, NE
University of Nebraska at Omaha, School of Interdisciplinary Informatics, Omaha, NE
University of Nebraska at Omaha, Department of Teacher Education, Omaha, NE
Nebraska Wesleyan University, Physics, Astronomy, and Computer Science Department, Lincoln, NE

Email Address:

gduncan@nebrwesleyan.edu

Description: Bioinformatics is a well-established and rapidly-developing discipline integrating mathematical and
computational techniques with biological knowledge to analyze genetic information. The essential nature of bioinformatics is well-recognized in graduate programs, research consortia, and biotechnology industries, but exposure to bioinformatics has been slow to reach life sciences undergraduates, and bioinformatics-focused laboratories are not yet widely available. The goal of this workshop is to present a bioinformatics-focused laboratory that has been developed and implemented by the authors at three universities in Nebraska. The laboratory can be used in a variety of classes. A similar workshop covering different laboratories was presented at ABLE 2014.

Keywords:

computational biology
bioinformatics
sequence alignment
BLAST

Topic:

Bioinformatics

BEN Subject/Discipline Taxonomy:

Bioinformatics

Learning Resource Type:

Laboratory exercise (DCMI Type Vocabulary)

Context:

Undergraduate upper division 15-16

Format:

pdf