Integrating experience with databases, bioinformatics, and wet lab exercises for students in an introductory genetics course.

ABSTRACT: Students often have no exposure to the incredible amount of genomic and proteomic data that is freely and easily accessible online. Becoming familiar with these resources, and seeing how they could be applied to a specific research question, is a prerequisite for students to apply them to their own scientific development. Many students have to "see it" and "do it" before they "get it." This paper describes a teaching laboratory for undergraduate Genetics students that combines exploration of several publicly available databases with some simple bioinformatic exercises and "'real" live experience in a wet lab exercise. The goal is to teach skills in applying genomic data to a real scientific question. In this exercise, students identify a target protein after exploring several protein and s

SUBMITTER: Carroll DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10661174 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature