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Bring Bioinformatics to Your Biology Classroom

Using bioinformatics strategies to solve biology problems in introductory courses

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Goals

  • Integrate bioinformatics exercises into introductory biology classrooms
  • Introduce students to essential, and critically important bioinformatics concepts and competencies including tools and algorithms that accomplish multiple sequence alignment, BLAST, and generation of distance trees (phylograms)

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Final Products

A key learning objective in biology is applying bioinformatics tools to test a real-life question. These inquiry-based modules have students assemble and align data, and construct simple phylogenies using the program MEGA, to test evolutionary hypotheses.
phylogenetics, bioinformatics, FASTA, NCBI, BLAST, multiple sequence alignment, CourseSource, Zika virus, MEGA, alcohol metabolism
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Following the Sequence Similarity exercises by Kleinschmit, et al., this tutorial will guide students in using the Bioconductor suite of R packages to likewise compute sequence similarity.
bioinformatics, sequencing, NIBLSE, multiple sequence alignment, Bioconductor
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06.2021
This laboratory module, published on CourseSource, leads introductory biology students in the exploration of a basic set of bioinformatics concepts and tools.
phylogenetics, bioinformatics, sequencing, FASTA, NCBI, NIBLSE, algorithms, incubators, BLAST, multiple sequence alignment, CourseSource, phylogram, Zika virus
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06.2021
This laboratory module, published on CourseSource, leads introductory biology students in the exploration of a basic set of bioinformatics concepts and tools.
phylogenetics, bioinformatics, sequencing, FASTA, NCBI, NIBLSE, algorithms, BLAST, multiple sequence alignment, CourseSource, phylogram, percent identity matrix
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06.2021
The video walks the students to complete Module 1 and 2 on Sequence Similarly and Alignment adapted from Tapprich (2019) and Hudson Alpha that teaches these modules within the context of the SARS-COVID 2 virus.
bioinformatics, sequencing, FASTA, NCBI, NIBLSE, algorithms, BLAST, multiple sequence alignment, CourseSource
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05.2021