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    Defining Life: Exploring Creativity, Scientific Discovery, and Biology Core Concepts in a Disciplinary First-Year Seminar
    This unit, Defining Life, engages students in thinking like scientists, applying creativity to science, and learning biology core concepts as they explore the defining characteristics of life. This...

    Keywords: Evolutionbiologycellprocess of science

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    Genome Solver - A bioinformatics pipeline for community science
    The Genome Solver was an NSF-funded project developed as a way to train undergraduate life science faculty in basic web-based tools for bioinformatics. As part of the project we developed a one-day...

    Keywords: phylogeneticsbacteriophagebacteriaHorizontal Gene transferGenome Analysis

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    1-015-Torricelli-ModelingScenario
    We help students develop a model (Torricelli's Law) for the height of a falling column of water with a small hole in the container at the bottom of the column of water through which water exits the...

    Keywords: dataSpanishtankcolumn of waterapertureTorricelli's LawConservation of EnergytSolverwater flowExcel Solver

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    2015-Cano-EtAl-Bringing partial differential equations to life for students
    This work describes how to use an authoring tool, Easy Java Simulations, to build interactive simulations using FreeFem++ (Hecht F 2012 J. Numer. Math. 20 251) as a PDE solver engine.

    Keywords: Java SimulationFreeFemauthoring toolsauthoring methodsphysical modellingclassroom teaching

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    2008-Ahmed_Mohameden-Solving initial-value second order ordinary differential equations on an Excel spreadsheet
    This paper presents a friendly method of solving initial-value second order differential equations (DEs) analytically on a MS Excel© workbook.

    Keywords: ExcelSpreadsheet

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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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    Lesson II - Databases
    Genome Solver began as a way to teach undergraduate faculty some basic skills in bioinformatics; no coding or scripting is required. Lesson II introduces the principal databases for microbial...

    Keywords: Bioinformatics EducationBioinformatics and Genomics

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    Lesson VI - The Community Science Project
    Genome Solver's Community Science Project was developed as a way to use the skills taught in the previous lessons. We're asking members of the community to provide instances of potential phage...

    Keywords: Bioinformatics EducationBioinformatics and Genomics

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    1-165-FlushToilet-ModelingScenario
    This activity analyzes the spread of a technological innovation using the Bass Model from Economics. The equation is a first-order, two-parameter separable equation and the solution has a...

    Keywords: juliaDiffusioninnovationrate of innovationBass modelSolver

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    Pre-lesson: Introduction to BLAST
    Genome Solver began as a way to teach undergraduate faculty some basic skills in bioinformatics; no coding or scripting is required. This pre-lesson introduces the BLAST tool.

    Keywords: Bioinformatics EducationBioinformatics and Genomics

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    Pre-lesson: Introduction to BLAST
    Genome Solver began as a way to teach undergraduate faculty some basic skills in bioinformatics; no coding or scripting is required. This pre-lesson introduces the BLAST tool.

    Keywords: Bioinformatics EducationBioinformatics and Genomics

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    Unwrapping Enzyme Kinetics
    Enzyme rates and kinetics are key components used by biochemists to understand how enzymes function. However, students often find it difficult to understand how these experiments are performed and...

    Keywords: kineticsstructure-functionenzymescatalysis

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    Using Bioinformatics Activities to understand the Past and Present of SARS-CoV2
    We have designed a Bioinformatics activity that uses tools to identify the origins and mutations in the novel SARS-CoV2 strains.
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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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    Mini-Workshop August 14, 2020
    We reviewed the materials available on Genome Solver (other lessons here) and described our new python pipeline for examining horizontal gene transfer and a new synteny lesson in detail.

    Keywords: Bioinformatics Education

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    Pre-lesson: Introduction to BLAST
    Genome Solver began as a way to teach undergraduate faculty some basic skills in bioinformatics; no coding or scripting is required. This pre-lesson introduces the BLAST tool.

    Keywords: Bioinformatics EducationBioinformatics and Genomics

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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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    Genome Solver: Building faculty skills in bioinformatics
    Genome Solver (GS) began in 2011 as an NSF-funded project for faculty training in basic web-based bioinformatics skills.

    Keywords: faculty developmentbioinformaticsgenome solver

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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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    BLAST Exercises for Analyzing Cloning Results
    Genome Solver began as a way to teach undergraduate faculty some basic skills in bioinformatics; no coding or scripting is required. These activities have modified Lesson 1: Introduction to Genome...

    Keywords: Bioinformatics EducationBioinformatics and Genomics

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