Undergraduate Bioinformatics Workshops Provide Perceived Skills

Bioinformatics is becoming an important part of undergraduate curriculum, but expertise and well-evaluated teaching materials may not be available on every campus. Here, a guest speaker was utilized to introduce bioinformatics and web-available exercises were adapted for student investigation. Stude...

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Autor principal:	Robin Herlands Cresiski
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Publicado:	American Society for Microbiology 2014
Materias:	Special aspects of education LC8-6691 Biology (General) QH301-705.5
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:32ad5a1bdaf046fb9676ff7d8ce0d3162021-11-15T15:15:37ZUndergraduate Bioinformatics Workshops Provide Perceived Skills10.1128/jmbe.v15i2.6381935-78851935-7877https://doaj.org/article/32ad5a1bdaf046fb9676ff7d8ce0d3162014-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jmbe.v15i2.638https://doaj.org/toc/1935-7877https://doaj.org/toc/1935-7885Bioinformatics is becoming an important part of undergraduate curriculum, but expertise and well-evaluated teaching materials may not be available on every campus. Here, a guest speaker was utilized to introduce bioinformatics and web-available exercises were adapted for student investigation. Students used web-based nucleotide comparison tools to examine the medical and evolutionary relevance of a unidentified genetic sequence. Based on pre- and post-workshop surveys, there were significant gains in the students understanding of bioinformatics, as well as their perceived skills in using bioinformatics tools. The relevance of bioinformatics to a student’s career seemed dependent on career aspirations.Robin Herlands CresiskiAmerican Society for MicrobiologyarticleSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691Biology (General)QH301-705.5ENJournal of Microbiology & Biology Education, Vol 15, Iss 2, Pp 292-294 (2014)
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description	Bioinformatics is becoming an important part of undergraduate curriculum, but expertise and well-evaluated teaching materials may not be available on every campus. Here, a guest speaker was utilized to introduce bioinformatics and web-available exercises were adapted for student investigation. Students used web-based nucleotide comparison tools to examine the medical and evolutionary relevance of a unidentified genetic sequence. Based on pre- and post-workshop surveys, there were significant gains in the students understanding of bioinformatics, as well as their perceived skills in using bioinformatics tools. The relevance of bioinformatics to a student’s career seemed dependent on career aspirations.
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Undergraduate Bioinformatics Workshops Provide Perceived Skills

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