July 31, 2006
Category: Miscellany
I've been fortunate, living in Seattle, to hear talks from many people that my colleagues and co-bloggers might consider to be rock stars - people like Mary-Claire King, Nancy Wexler,...
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July 28, 2006
Category: Digital Biology Fridays
We've had a good time in the past few last weeks, identifying unknown sequences and learning our way around a GenBank nucleotide record. To some people, it seems that this...
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July 26, 2006
Category: Classic Digital Bio
Trade publications; such as catalogs, technical bulletins, and web sites; are a valuable source of information for students in biotechnology-related courses. Not only do catalogs and technical publications provide current...
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July 25, 2006
Category: Science education
One of my favorite experiments, in our biotech program at Seattle Central Community College, was when my students sequenced promoters that they had cloned from E. coli . I liked...
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July 24, 2006
Category: Classic Digital Bio
A few years ago, the General Biology students at the Johns Hopkins University began to interrogate the unseen world. During this semester-long project, they study the ecosystems of the Homewood...
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July 21, 2006
Category: Digital Biology Fridays
"Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!" I realized that I should add just a bit more information to last answer on gene identification, so here...
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Category: Digital Biology Fridays
Welcome back! If you've just joined us, we're in the middle of a quest to find the identity of an unknown nucleotide sequence. To summarize our results so far, we...
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July 14, 2006
Category: Digital Biology Fridays
Last week, we embarked on an adventure with BLAST. BLAST, short for Basic Alignment Search Tool, is a collection of programs, written by scientists at the NCBI (1) that are...
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July 12, 2006
Category: Science education
Many regions in the United States, and the world for that matter, are seeking to entice biotech companies to relocate. As Lorraine Ruff and David Gabrilska describe in their Genetic...
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July 10, 2006
Category: molecular structures
Although, I certainly didn't believe it. Truly in nature, it can be described as nonpareil. With all the years that I've heard (or taught) that all DNA is antiparallel, it...
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