The Genomics Education Partnership(GEP): Undergraduate Student Analysis of Drosophila Genomes
Julia A. Emerson, S. Catherine Silver Key, Consuelo J. Alvarez, Stephanie Mel, Gerard P. McNeil, Kenneth J. Saville, Wilson Leung, Christopher D. Shaffer & Sarah C. R. Elgin
Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 2013, Volume 34
Abstract
The GEP, a group of faculty from over 90 primarily undergraduate institutions, is using comparative genomics to engage students in research within regular courses. Using a versatile curriculum, GEP undergraduates undertake projects to improve draft genomic sequences and/or participate in the annotation of these improved sequences. An additional goal of the annotation curriculum is for students to gain a sophisticated understanding of eukaryotic gene structure. Students do so by carefully mapping the protein-coding regions of putative genes from recentlysequenced Drosophila species. This paper describes some ways in which the GEP’s annotation tools have been adopted for use in undergraduate courses.
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