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Sandra Porter I am a digital biologist, teacher, and entrepreneur. My passion is developing instructional materials for 21st century biology (Digital World Biology).

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February 26, 2008

Bacterial metagenomics on the JHU campus: analyzing the data, part IV

Category: Microbiology

Do different kinds of biomes (forest vs. creek) support different kinds of bacteria? Or do we find the same amounts of each genus wherever we look? Those are the questions...

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Bacterial metagenomics on the JHU campus: analyzing the data, part III

Category: Microbiology

This is third video in our series on analyzing the DNA sequences that came from bacteria on the JHU campus. In this video, we use a pivot table to count...

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Bacterial metagenomics on the JHU campus: analyzing the data, part II

Category: Bioinformatics

What do you do after you've used DNA sequencing to identify the bacteria, viruses, or other organisms in the environment? What's the next step? This four part video series covers...

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Bacterial metagenomics on the JHU campus: analyzing the data, part I

Category: Bioinformatics

For the past few years, I've been collaborating with a friend, Dr. Rebecca Pearlman, who teaches introductory biology at the Johns Hopkins University. Her students isolate bacteria from different environments...

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February 25, 2008

Obsolete lab skills are what we teach best

Category: Science education

When will science lab courses start teaching more of what we do now, and less of what we did twenty years ago?

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February 23, 2008

What do you do when you hear "achoo!"? The etiquette of a sneeze

Category: cubical world

In the cubical world, is the "Gesundheit" the right thing to say?

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February 16, 2008

How do I love thee SQL? Let me COUNT the ways. Number 1...

Category: Bioinformatics

I love the way you show me secret things. All I do is type: Select * from name_of_a_table And you share everything with me. Without you, my vision is obscured,...

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February 14, 2008

Who are you? ScienceBlogs wants to know

Category: Miscellany

They could have used the data from my serial killer survey, but no, being scientists or science-related, the ScienceBlogs overseers want to find out for themselves. Plus the chance of...

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My funny Valentine

Category: Valentine's Day

Believe it or not, this is a DNA kiss....

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February 13, 2008

Feeling ethically challenged?

Category: bioethics

Confused about terms like "autonomy" and "beneficance" and their relationship to biomedical research? The Northwest Association for Biomedical Research (NWABR) is offering a short course at the University of Washington,...

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