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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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    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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    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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    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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    Murder by HIV? Undergraduate edition
    Bioinformatics case study focusing on phylogenetic tree interpretation, published in the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science

    Keywords: case studyResources @ NSF - NCCSTSbioinformaticsNIBLSEHIVnucleotide sequencingphylogenetic treeviral life cyclesmutation ratesreverse transcriptase sequences

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    Sequence Similarity: A Quick Introduction to Bioconductor
    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.

    Keywords: bioinformaticssequencingNIBLSEmultiple sequence alignmentsequence similarityBLOSUM scoring matrixBioconductor

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    The Ames Test
    Introduction to the Ames Test, published as GSA Learning Resource

    Keywords: geneticsNIBLSEDNAames testassay

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    A Critical Guide to Unix
    This Critical Guide in the Introduction to Bioinformatics series briefly introduces the Unix Operating System, and provides a subset of some of the most helpful and commonly used commands....

    Keywords: NIBLSEUNIXbasic UNIX commandsGOBLETInstructorResources

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    Bioinformatics: the Power of Computers in Biology – a Practical Guide
    This Practical Guide in the Bringing Bioinformatics into the Classroom series introduces simple bioinformatics approaches for database searching and sequence analysis.

    Keywords: NIBLSEGOBLET

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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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    Using Undergraduate Molecular Biology Labs to Discover Targets of miRNAs in Humans
    In this lesson, we describe an easily adaptable lab module that can be used in existing undergraduate molecular biology lab courses to conduct authentic scientific research, published in CourseSource

    Keywords: molecular biologybioinformaticsNIBLSEgene regulationmicroRNAsgene expressionCourseSourcemiRNA

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    Making toast: Using analogies to explore concepts in bioinformatics
    Module using analogies to introduce students to genomics

    Keywords: bioinformaticsgenomicsworkflowNIBLSECourseSourceanalogiesbioinformatics workflows

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    Finding Selection in All the Right Places
    Lab introducing students to evolutionary genetics using bioinformatics and biocuration, published as GSA Learning Resource

    Keywords: geneticsbioinformaticssequencingNIBLSE

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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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    Bioinformatics: An Interactive Introduction to NCBI
    Modules showing how the NCBI database classifies and organizes information on DNA sequences, evolutionary relationships, and scientific publications. And a module working to identify a nucleotide...

    Keywords: NCBINIBLSEDNABLASTnucleotide sequencing

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    Wolf Sheep Predation Simulation Exercise
    This resource is an exercise to introduce students to agent-based modeling of biological systems through working with a simple existing model.

    Keywords: simulationecologyIntroductoryNetLogoagent-based modelingagent-based modelLabbioinformaticspredator-preyUndergraduateNIBLSEInstructional SettingAudience LevelActivity LengthLess than 1 hoursimulation cycleC1. Role of bioinformaticsC6. ModelsReviewed at NIBLSEagent based modleing

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    Exploring HIV Evolution
    In this activity you will study aspects of sequence evolution by working with a set of HIV sequence data from 15 different subjects (Markham, et al., 1998). You will first learn about the dataset,...

    Keywords: EvolutionbioinformaticssequencingUndergraduateNIBLSEincubatorsHIVAudience LevelC1. Role of bioinformaticsC4. Bioinformatics toolsRecommended by NIBLSE

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    RNA-seq Analysis
    In this computer lab module, students learn how to process an RNA-seq data set to identify differentially expressed genes (DEGs). The samples for this data set were collected from yeast cells...

    Keywords: LabRNAsequencingUndergraduateNIBLSEincubatorsRNAseqInstructional SettingAudience LevelActivity LengthMore than 1 hourC4. Bioinformatics toolsC5. Data retrievalReviewed at NIBLSEdifferentially expressed genes

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    Incubators: A community based model for improving the usability of bioinformatics learning resources
    Poster on Incubators, a NIBLSE and QUBES collaboration presented at Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference - Chicago, IL

    Keywords: NIBLSEincubators

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    Introductory Video and worksheets on Module 1 and 2 on "Sequence Similarity: An inquiry based and under the hood..."
    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...

    Keywords: bioinformaticssequencingFASTANCBINIBLSEalgorithmsBLASTmultiple sequence alignmentsequence similarityBLOSUM scoring matrixCourseSource

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