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My thoughts on biology, teaching, life, and exploring the living world via the digital one. Only my opinions are represented by these postings, they do not represent the viewpoints of any funding agency or Geospiza, Inc.
I am a microbiologist and molecular biologist turned tenured biotech faculty turned bioinformatics scientist turned entrepreneur. My passion is developing instructional materials for 21st century biology (Digital World Biology).
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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,...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 6:00 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 8:00 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 8:33 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 8:00 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 9:20 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 7:26 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 4:19 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 11:35 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 11:40 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 10:50 PM • 0 Comments •
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