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    1999-Peter_Deuflhard-Differential Equations in Technology and Medicine
    It deals with a variety of challenging real life problems selected from clinical cancer therapy, communication technology, polymer production, and pharmaceutical drug design.

    Keywords: cancerdesigntumordrugpolymertherapy

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    Integration of Bioinformatics into Life Science Curricula: Community Development, Dissemination, and Assessment of a NIBLSE Learning Resource
    Big data and computational tools have transformed the way we address biological questions. To prepare undergraduates for tomorrow’s challenges, life science curricula should integrate the...

    Keywords: bioinformaticsNIBLSELife Science

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    Robot vs. Disease: Using CellProfiler to model biomedical research in your classroom
    Resource from the 2015 BioQUEST Summer Workshop

    Keywords: image analysisCellProfilerfluorescence microscopymicroscopycellular analysis

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    Colon Cancer: A Case of Genetic Bad Luck
    Case study developed for an introductory genetics class published in the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science

    Keywords: bioinformaticsNCBINIBLSEBLASTPublished in National Center for Case Study Teaching in Sciencecolon cancerpedigreegenetic testingAPC

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    Exploration of the Human Genome by Investigation of Personalized SNPs
    To increase students' interest in their own genomes, this computer-based laboratory lesson is designed to be coupled with the opportunity for the students to be genotyped by the consumer sequencing...

    Keywords: bioinformaticsNIBLSECourseSourcegenomic wide association studiesUCSC genome browsersingle nucleotide polymorphism

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    Using DNA Subway to Analyze Sequence Relationships
    This is a bioinformatics exercise using the DNA Subway Blue Line, a user-friendly pipeline of bioinformatics tools, to analyze a collection of mosquito DNA bar-code sequences.

    Keywords: phylogeneticsNIBLSEDNA BarcodingDNA sequenceBLASTmultiple sequence alignmentC1. Role of bioinformaticsC2. Computational conceptsC4. Bioinformatics toolsC5. Data retrievalC8. Data typesIncubated at NIBLSE

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    Yeti or not: Do they exist?
    Through this 4-part bioinformatics case study, students will be led through the forensic analysis of putative Yeti artifacts based on published findings.

    Keywords: case studybioinformaticsNIBLSEBLAST12S sequencingYeti

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    Using Online Materials/Videos to Enrich Linear Algebra for Scientists
    Abstract for a talk given on an experiment using MIT’s open courseware linear algebra videos to teach a linear algebra course without prerequisites that targeted biology majors.

    Keywords: videoslinear algebraopen coursewareCamtasia

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    Inquiry-based hypothesis testing using phylogenetic trees in MEGA
    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...

    Keywords: phylogeneticsbioinformaticsFASTANCBIBLASTmultiple sequence alignmentsequence similarityCourseSourceZika virusMEGAalcohol metabolism

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    A Fun Introductory Command Line Exercise: Next Generation Sequencing Quality Analysis with Emoji!
    This resource is a fun computer-based intro to command line programming. The activity takes FASTQ NGS data files and runs a fun program called FASTQE.

    Keywords: data sciencebioinformaticsnext generation sequencingquality controlFASTQgenomicsprogrammingNIBLSElinuxmicrobiomeIllumina sequencingcommand lineFASTQEFASTPNGS analysisterminalMacemojiPhred scoreTrimmingshort read

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    Behavioral Genetics: Investigating the genes of a complex phenotype in fruit flies
    Introductory genetics laboratory published as GSA Learning Resource

    Keywords: behaviorbioinformaticsNIBLSEdrosophilagenetic basisfruit fliesmodel organism

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    BSL-4: Authorized Personnel Only
    National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science resource on the 2014 Ebola epidemic. This resource is also included in the NIBLSE Learning Resource Collection

    Keywords: infectious diseaseexperimental designbioinformaticsEbolaNIBLSECase It!PCRBLASTmultiple sequence alignmentPublished in National Center for Case Study Teaching in Sciencepolymerase chain reactionfebrile illnessvirusELISAenzyme linked immunosorbent assayfilovirusAfrica

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    2003-Fay-Graham-Coupled spring equations
    Coupled spring equations for modelling the motion of two springs with weights attached, hung in series from the ceiling are described.

    Keywords: spring massoscillationHooke's Lawcoupled springsperiodicforcing functionphase portrait

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    2003-Fay-Graham-Coupled spring equations
    Coupled spring equations for modelling the motion of two springs with weights attached, hung in series from the ceiling are described.

    Keywords: massoscillationspring\coupled springsperiodicfporcing

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    2012-Nokkaew-EtAl-Estimation of Algae Growth Model Parameters by a Double Layer Genetic Algorithm
    This paper presents a double layer genetic algorithm (DLGA) to improve performance of the information-constrained parameter estimations.

    Keywords: optimizationalgae growthgenetic algorithmssimulated dataconvergence of parameters

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    2013-Fathalla_Rihan-Delay Differential Equations in Biosciences - Parameter estimation and sensitivity analysis
    This is a review article to show that delay differential models have a richer mathematical framework (compared with models without memory or after-effects) and a better consistency with biological...

    Keywords: epidemiologysensitivityImmunologyphysiologyRK-methodstime-lags

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    9-001-SkinBurnModelNumericalMethods-TechniqueNarrative
    The heat equation is an important partial differential equation (PDE) which describes the distribution of heat in a given region over time. Numerical methods play an important role in solving these.

    Keywords: Maternal-Fetal interfaceheat equationConservation of Energytheat fluxEuler's forward methodcentral differenceskin burnhyperthermiathermal conductivitylayers

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    Using computational molecular modeling software to demonstrate how DNA mutations cause phenotypes
    This lesson is a five-week series of laboratory activities designed to help students transition from applying lower order thinking skills to the central dogma to applying higher-order thinking skills.

    Keywords: bioinformaticsNIBLSEProtein StructureDNAmolecular modelinggenotypephenotypeCourseSourcecomputational modelingcentral dogmaplant leaf structure

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    DCS 105 Calling Bull F24 Schedule
    Schedule overview for Bates College Course DCS 105 Calling Bull

    Keywords: datacalling bullmisinformationBates CollegeSchedule

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    Teaching RNAseq at Undergraduate Institutions: A tutorial and R package from the Genome Consortium for Active Teaching
    This lesson plan was created to teach RNAseq analysis as a part of GCAT-SEEK network. It is provided here, both in finished form and with the modifiable source code, to allow flexible adaptation to...

    Keywords: statisticsR programming languagebioinformaticsNIBLSERNAseqgene expressionCourseSourcecomputer programming

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