The genomics education partnership: successful integration of research into laboratory classes at a diverse group of undergraduate institutions.

ABSTRACT: Genomics is not only essential for students to understand biology but also provides unprecedented opportunities for undergraduate research. The goal of the Genomics Education Partnership (GEP), a collaboration between a growing number of colleges and universities around the country and the Department of Biology and Genome Center of Washington University in St. Louis, is to provide such research opportunities. Using a versatile curriculum that has been adapted to many different class settings, GEP undergraduates undertake projects to bring draft-quality genomic sequence up to high quality and/or participate in the annotation of these sequences. GEP undergraduates have improved more than 2 million bases of draft genomic sequence from several species of Drosophila and have produced hundreds o

SUBMITTER: Shaffer CD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2830162 | biostudies-literature | 2010

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature