Laboratories for Integrating Bioinformatics into the Life Sciences – Part II

 

Garry Duncan, O. William McClung, Letitia Reichart, Dawn Simon, William Tapprich, Neal Grandgenett, & Mark Pauley

Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 2016, Volume 37

Abstract

Bioinformatics is a well-established and rapidly-developing discipline integrating mathematical and computational techniques with biological knowledge to analyze genetic information. The essential nature of bioinformatics is well-recognized in graduate programs, research consortia, and biotechnology industries, but exposure to bioinformatics has been slow to reach life sciences undergraduates, and bioinformatics-focused laboratories are not yet widely available. The goal of this workshop is to present a bioinformatics-focused laboratory that has been developed and implemented by the authors at three universities in Nebraska. The laboratory can be used in a variety of classes. A similar workshop covering different laboratories was presented at ABLE 2014.

Keywords:  bioinformatics, BLAST, computational biology, sequence alignment

Boston University (2015)