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    Teaching Protein Structure Modeling
    New strains of microbes have been regularly discovered and brought into a laboratory for study in many different directions. When a new microbial genome is sequenced and assembled, the homologues...

    Keywords: Microbiology Educationbioinformaticsprotein structure modeling

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    Lesson III - Annotation
    Genome Solver began as a way to teach undergraduate faculty some basic skills in bioinformatics; no coding or scripting is required. Lesson III introduces Annotation, or assigning meaning to all...

    Keywords: Bioinformatics EducationBioinformatics and Genomics

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    Neochromosomes: Creating transcriptional units with yeast Golden Gate assembly
    This resource is a series of protocols using the yeast Golden Gate (yGG) method as developed by Neta Agmon and Leslie Mitchell in Jef Boeke’s lab to assemble a functional yeast gene with...
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    MiniWorkshop Follow-Up October 2, 2020
    A follow up to our mini workshop of August 14, 2020. Further information about the python pipeline for HGT and the new cytoscape lesson.

    Keywords: Bioinformatics Education

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    Lesson VII - Synteny
    The lesson teaches about synteny or the order of genes along a chromosome, which is useful for looking at orthologous genes between two species or strains.

    Keywords: Bioinformatics Education

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    Bioinformatics: CpG Islands
    This is an introductory bioinformatics exercise intended for use in a genetics course.

    Keywords: geneticsepigeneticsbioinformaticsNIBLSEcpggenome database

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    CUNEL - Connectomes for Undergraduate Neuroscience Education and Learning (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    The Connectomes for Undergraduate Neuroscience Education and Learning (CUNEL) project seeks to bring cutting-edge neuroscience methods into undergraduate classrooms and laboratories in order to...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    Links to Avida-ED spreadsheets for Active LENS and BioQUEST 2018
    Avida-ED materials and resources for Active LENS and BioQUEST 2018.

    Keywords: avida-edSummer Workshop 2018

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    Serenity now! Keep calm and do science with real data in the classroom
    Session on using real data in the classroom with Serenity, a platform-independent browser-based interface to data science tools for the classroom.

    Keywords: data scienceBIRDDtool:serenitySummer Workshop 2018Galapagos

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    Exploring Functions for Common Phage Proteins
    This resource is designed to help students better understand the functions of common structural and enzymatic phage proteins, and to relate these functions to phage structure using electron...
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    An Introduction to Eukaryotic Genome Analysis in Non-model Species for Undergraduates: A tutorial from the Genome Consortium for Active Teaching
    Advances in Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technology have led to development of many research methods for analyzing genomic data. Students studying biology at the undergraduate level must hone...

    Keywords: Speciationgenome evolutiongenetic variation

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    Sequence Similarity: An inquiry based and "under the hood" approach for incorporating molecular sequence alignment in introductory undergraduate biology courses
    Introductory bioinformatics exercises often walk students through the use of computational tools, but often provide little understanding of what a computational tool does "under the...

    Keywords: BLASTmultiple sequence alignmentsequence similarityphylogramZika virusAlgorithmScoring Matrix

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    Polyploidapalooza: Exploring the diversity and evolution of polyploid plants and animals
    This series of modules explores the complex world of polyploidy, including species formation, cell division, evolution, conservation, and economic importance. We focus on polyploidy across the...

    Keywords: Evolutionconservationnatural historyCell DivisionhybridizationPolyploidygenome duplicationallopolyploidyautopolyploidy

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    2016-Wilkie-EtAl-Using ODEs to Explore Cancer-Immune Dynamics and Tumor Dormancy
    Here we present a general method using ordinary differential equations (ODEs) to model and analyze cancer-immune interactions, and in particular, immune-induced tumor dormancy.

    Keywords: cancertumor-inhibiting cytotoxic actiontumor-promoting inflammationimmune-induced tumor dormancytumor growth dynamics

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    2015-The European Bioinformatics Institute-BioModels Database
    BioModels Database is a repository of computational models of biological processes. Models described from literature are manually curated and enriched with cross-references.

    Keywords: computational biologyBioModels Databasebio databaselife science experiments

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    CURESUB Lecture 5 - OMICS
    s assistant professor in the department of medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Manisha Bajpai, PhD., led the Gastroenterology division’s clinical and translational research...
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    Genome Hunters: A Quantitative Biology Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE)
    Poster outlining the process of designing, implementing, and assessing a new quantitative biology CURE course series. Presented at the 2021 BIOME Institute.

    Keywords: quantitative biologycourse-based undergraduate research experienceCURE2021 BIOME

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    Exploring Random Mutation and Selection: Avida-Ed Lab Book Exercise 2
    An introductory activity exploring the role of random mutation in natural selection using the Avida-ED simulation.

    Keywords: avida-edmutationsoftware simulationsSelectionvariation

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    Exploring the Introduction of Genetic Variation by Random Mutation: Avida-Ed Lab Book Exercise 1
    An introductory activity introducing the role of random mutation in generating genetic variation using the Avida-ED simulation.

    Keywords: geneticsEvolutionavida-edmutationsoftware simulations

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    Exploring the evolution of caffeine biosynthesis enzymes
    Caffeine is a very common stimulant consume worldwide as tea, coffee, mate, cocoa, and chocolate. Ever wondered why plants make caffeine? Do all caffeine producing plants have the same enzymes for...

    Keywords: Bioinformatics EducationBioinformatics and Genomics

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