期刊名称:Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education
印刷版ISSN:1935-7877
电子版ISSN:1935-7885
出版年度:2013
卷号:14
期号:1
页码:107-109
DOI:10.1128/jmbe.v14i1.496
出版社:American Society for Microbiology
摘要:Bioinformatics spans many fields of biological research and plays a vital role in mining and analyzing data. Therefore, there is an ever-increasing need for students to understand not only what can be learned from this data, but also how to use basic bioinformatics tools. This activity is designed to provide secondary and undergraduate biology students to a hands-on activity meant to explore and understand gene structure with the use of basic bioinformatic tools. Students are provided an “unknown” sequence from which they are asked to use a free online gene finder program to identify the gene. Students then predict the putative function of this gene with the use of additional online databases.