Laboratories for Integrating Bioinformatics into the Life Sciences

 

Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 2015, Volume 36

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

Abstract

Bioinformatics is a rapidly emerging 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 undergraduate life science curricula. The goal of this workshop is to present three bioinformatics-focused laboratories that have been developed, assessed, and implemented by the authors at three universities in Nebraska. The laboratories use a variety of online bioinformatics tools and real-world data and can be used in introductory and intermediate classes.

Keywords:  bioinformatics, computational biology, sequence alignment, ORF, sequence assembly

University of Oregon (2014)