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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)
Mentors
- Adam Kleinschmit, University of Dubuque
- Jacob Kerby, University of South Dakota
- Bill Morgan, The College of Wooster
- Barbara Murdoch, Eastern Connecticut State University
Final Products
Inquiry-based hypothesis testing using phylogenetic trees in MEGA
Version: 1.0 Adapted From: Sequence Similarity: An inquiry based and "under the hood" approach for incorporating molecular sequence alignment in introductory undergraduate biology courses v5.0
Sequence Similarity: A Quick Introduction to Bioconductor
Version: 1.0 Adapted From: Sequence Similarity: An inquiry based and "under the hood" approach for incorporating molecular sequence alignment in introductory undergraduate biology courses v5.0
Sequence Similarity: Introducing Biological Databases to Community College Biology Students
Version: 1.0 Adapted From: Sequence Similarity: An inquiry based and "under the hood" approach for incorporating molecular sequence alignment in introductory undergraduate biology courses v5.0
Developing a phylogram from computational resources.
Version: 1.0 Adapted From: Sequence Similarity: An inquiry based and "under the hood" approach for incorporating molecular sequence alignment in introductory undergraduate biology courses v5.0
Introductory Video and worksheets on Module 1 and 2 on "Sequence Similarity: An inquiry based and under the hood..."
Version: 1.0 Adapted From: Sequence Similarity: An inquiry based and "under the hood" approach for incorporating molecular sequence alignment in introductory undergraduate biology courses v5.0