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 (Geospiza Education).
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June 28, 2007
Category: Chautauqua 2007
When we make primer sequences for an assay, two characteristics we're concerned with are the specificity of the primers and the sensitivity. We can use blastn to evaluate whether or not our primers are likely to work....
Posted by Sandra Porter at 5:25 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Chautauqua 2007
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Posted by Sandra Porter at 3:53 PM • 0 Comments •
June 27, 2007
Category: viruses
I'm seeing these things everywhere. Well, okay, maybe not everywhere. But I have seen lots of these in both Fairbanks and Anchorage. Is this a coincidence? This is a hand-sanitizer, with instructions on how to cough safely....
Posted by Sandra Porter at 2:08 AM • 3 Comments •
June 22, 2007
Category: Bioinformatics
What happens when a biologist tries to talk to the IT group?
Posted by Sandra Porter at 7:00 AM • 8 Comments •
June 21, 2007
Category: Chautauqua 2007
The best PCR animations on the web
Posted by Sandra Porter at 4:00 PM • 8 Comments •
June 20, 2007
Category: Bioinformatics
Answers to a commenter who bemoans bioinformatics education.
Posted by Sandra Porter at 1:35 PM • 8 Comments •
June 19, 2007
Category: Bioinformatics
Know your biology! I get asked often about the type of bioinformatics training that students should get and whether it should be a special course or not. And I answer that I think teaching bioinformatics in the absence of biology is like teaching Microsoft Word in the absence of writing. There isn't much point. tags: bioinformatics, education So I was...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 1:41 PM • 14 Comments •
June 4, 2007
Category: teaching
Do course evaluations have to be a popularity contest? Or can they be useful tools for improving a class? tags: teaching, student evaluations A few days ago, evolgen lamented that his students weren't giving him useful information on their end-of-course evaluations. I'm not surprised. When I first started teaching, I was a given a copy of the standard-teacher-evaluation-form-that-everyone-used....
Posted by Sandra Porter at 8:00 AM • 8 Comments •
June 3, 2007
Category: Announcements
There are plenty of carnivals to juggle on the 'net.
Posted by Sandra Porter at 2:05 PM • 0 Comments •
June 1, 2007
Category: Bioinformatics
Could a protein from a virus help plants handle global warming?
Posted by Sandra Porter at 9:15 AM • 0 Comments •
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