Science education:
Workforce shortages are a growing problem in the biotech industry. Communities are concerned that a lack of trained workers will either keep companies away or cause companies to move. If companies do have to move, it's likely those jobs might be lost forever, never to return. According to Robert Reich, former U.S. secretary of labor, now a professor at UC-Berkeley,...
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Posted on May 9, 2008 8:00 AM • 12 Comments •
Dave Robinson and Joann Lau from Bellarmine College in Kentucky are going to be describing their student project in a free webinar next Friday, May 16th. Their students clone GAPDH (Glyceraldehyde 3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase) genes from new plants, assemble the DNA sequences, and submit them to the NCBI. Here's an example. Plus, since GAPDH is a highly conserved, it's a great...
Posted on May 8, 2008 7:36 PM • 3 Comments •
How to compare mutant and normal protein structures.
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Posted on April 26, 2008 1:21 PM • 2 Comments •
Bill Gates, Eric Lander, Maynard Olson, Leena Peltonen, and George Church fielded questions last night at a fascinating panel discussion on personal genomics at the University of Washington. We were fortunate to be in the audience. I'll share some of the questions and answers, in some cases shortened and paraphrased....
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Posted on April 24, 2008 10:41 AM • 9 Comments •
One of my favorite web 2.0 technologies is the webinar. When you work at a company and not a University, with constant seminars, it gets a bit harder to hop on a bus and travel across town to learn about new things. Webinars are a good way to fill that gap. I grab my coffee cup, put on my headphones,...
Posted on April 22, 2008 3:36 PM • 2 Comments •
In the class that I'm teaching, we found that several PCR products, amplified from the 16S ribosomal RNA genes from bacterial isolates, contain a mixed base in one or more positions. We picked samples where the mixed bases were located in high quality regions of the sequence (Q >40), and determined that the mixed bases mostly likely come from different...
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Posted on April 17, 2008 8:00 AM • 2 Comments •
Ribosomes are molecular machines that build new proteins. This process of synthesizing a protein is also known as translation. Many antibiotics prevent translation by binding to ribosomal RNA. In the class that I'm teaching, we're going to be looking at ribosome structures to see if the polymorphisms that we find in the sequences of 16S ribosomal RNA are related antibiotic...
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Posted on April 16, 2008 7:54 PM • 2 Comments •
You can find out. Blaine Bettinger, the Genetic Genealogist has a fun little quiz....
Posted on April 9, 2008 5:30 PM • 0 Comments •
I love using molecular structures as teaching tools. They're beautiful, they're easy to obtain, and working with them is fun. But working with molecular structures as an educators can present some challenges. The biggest problem is that many of the articles describing the structures are not accessible, particularly those published by the ACS (American Chemical Society). I'm hoping that the...
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Posted on April 8, 2008 2:01 PM • 11 Comments •
And so do you.
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Posted on April 4, 2008 12:45 PM • 21 Comments •
Goodbye desktop, we're off to see the web. Both my students and I have been challenged this semester by the diversity of computer platforms, software versions, and unexpected bugs. Naturally, I turned to the world and my readers for help and suggestions. Some readers have suggested we could solve everything by using Linux. Others have convincingly demonstrated that Open Office...
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Posted on April 3, 2008 12:40 PM • 6 Comments •
Our new Scibling, Jane, is a real life computer scientist. If you've ever wondered what computer scientists really do during the day, Jane will set you straight (I guess they're not playing Nintendo. Darn! Another illusion shattered, just like that.)...
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Posted on March 29, 2008 11:10 AM • 0 Comments •
I made this video (below the fold) to illustrate the steps involved in making a phylogenetic tree. The basic steps are to: Build a data set Align the sequences Make a tree In the class that I'm teaching, we're making these trees in order to compare sequences from our metagenomics experiment with the multiple copies of 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA)...
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Posted on March 27, 2008 9:11 AM • 24 Comments •
A video tutorial on molecular structures.
Posted on March 19, 2008 5:37 PM • 1 Comments •
It's not Linux.
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Posted on March 19, 2008 5:23 PM • 6 Comments •
Bio-Link is accepting applications for this year's National Summer Fellows forum, June 2-6th, in Berkeley, CA. You can get an application at www.bio-link.org I'll be there, doing some kind of bioinformatics workshop. I'll probably be talking about either metagenomics or comparing protein structures and drug resistance, but if you have topic requests, feel free to submit them in the comments....
Posted on March 17, 2008 6:13 PM • 0 Comments •
One of my colleagues has a two part series on FinchTalk (starting today) that discusses uncertainty in measurement and what that uncertainty means for the present and Next Generation DNA sequencing technologies. I've been running into this uncertainty myself lately....
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Posted on March 17, 2008 2:05 PM • 3 Comments •
I've been writing quite a bit this week about my search for a cross platform spread sheet program that would support pivot tables and make pie graphs correctly. This all started because of a bug that my students encountered in Microsoft Excel, on Windows. I'm not personally motivated to look for something new, since Office 2004 on Mac OS 10.5...
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Posted on March 14, 2008 2:31 PM • 21 Comments •
I think all of us; me, the students the OO advocates, a thoughtful group of commenters, some instructors; I think many of us learned some things that we didn't anticipate the other day and got some interesting glimpses into the ways that other people view and interact with their computers. Some of the people who participated in the challenge found...
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Posted on March 13, 2008 6:42 PM • 0 Comments •
Okay OpenOffice fans, show me what you can do. Earlier this week, I wrote about my challenges with a bug in Microsoft Excel that only appears on Windows computers. Since I use a Mac, I didn't know about the bug when I wrote the assignment and I only found out about it after all but one of my students turned...
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Posted on March 12, 2008 12:50 PM • 35 Comments •
The other day, I wrote that I wanted to make things easier for my students by using the kinds of software that they were likely to have on their computers and the kinds that they are likely to see in the business and biotech world when they graduate from college. More than one person told me that I should have...
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Posted on March 11, 2008 8:00 AM • 33 Comments •
Three (or more) operating systems times three (or more) versions of software with bugs unique to one or systems (that I don't have) means too many systems for me to manage teaching. Thank the FSM they're not using Linux, too. (Let me see that would be Ubuntu Linux, RedHat Linux, Debian Linux, Yellow Dog Linux, Vine, Turbo, Slackware, etc.. It...
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Posted on March 10, 2008 8:09 AM • 12 Comments •
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 that we'll answer in this last video. We're going to use pivot tables and count all the genera that live in each biome. Then, we'll make pie graphs so that...
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Posted on February 26, 2008 10:58 AM • 3 Comments •
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 all the different types of bacteria that students found in 2004 and we make a pie graph to visualize the different numbers of each genus....
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Posted on February 26, 2008 10:47 AM • 0 Comments •
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 those next steps. In this part, we learn that a surprisingly large portion of bioinformatics, or any type of informatics is concerned with fixing data entry errors and spelling mistakes....
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Posted on February 26, 2008 10:19 AM • 0 Comments •
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 on campus, use PCR to amplify the 16S ribosomal RNA genes, send the samples to the JHU core lab for sequencing, and use blastn to identify what they found. Every...
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Posted on February 26, 2008 10:14 AM • 0 Comments •
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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Posted on February 25, 2008 2:48 PM • 24 Comments •
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, Feb. 29th and March 1st, on Ethics in Science. Registration details and a description are below....
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Posted on February 13, 2008 9:10 AM • 0 Comments •
Getting paid to do it?
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Posted on February 12, 2008 1:39 PM • 2 Comments •
A quick video introduction to BLAST.
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Posted on February 12, 2008 8:14 AM • 13 Comments •
A few weeks ago I attended a education conference at Pacific Science Center entitled, "A Conversation that Can Change the World."...
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Posted on February 10, 2008 12:17 PM • 6 Comments •
A long standing debate in my field is whether or not biologists, who work with computers, need to learn how to program. I usually say "no." Let the programmers program, the biologists interpret the results, and let everyone can benefit from each other's expertise. Well, I've changed my mind in one respect. Most biologists need to work with some kind...
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Posted on February 9, 2008 5:55 PM • 21 Comments •
We often see memorials written about famous scientists, but we rarely see them about the people who work in the background to help people learn the science in the first place. Ron was one of those people whose work inspired teachers and helped spark excitement in science students throughout the world. I just learned last week that Ron passed away...
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Posted on January 10, 2008 12:53 PM • 2 Comments •
When in doubt, turn to the internet. In a couple of weeks, I'm going to start teaching my first on-line course. So far, I've been preparing by: learning how to use Blackboard getting a subscription to iFinch so we can do bioinformatics in style, and share data and other files getting a microphone and some software for making video podcasts...
Posted on January 2, 2008 2:19 PM • 15 Comments •
You can get a jump on the Darwin Day festivities. Once again the Alliance for Science is sponsoring an essay contest for Darwin Day. If you download their suggestions for good essay writing, you can get your essay done over winter break and have a good crack at winning on those cash prizes! The Alliance for Science is pleased to...
Posted on December 20, 2007 9:29 AM • 0 Comments •
Last week I posted an image with two molecules (below the fold), one protein and one nucleic acid, and asked you about the probability of finding similar molecules in different species. You gave me some interesting answers....
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Posted on December 14, 2007 10:33 AM • 4 Comments •
This is a fun puzzle. The pink molecule is a protein and the other molecule is a nucleic acid....
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Posted on December 7, 2007 9:30 AM • 17 Comments •
The perpetual science student's contribution to modern language.
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Posted on December 5, 2007 4:33 PM • 30 Comments •
If we suspected a virgin birth, how could we prove it?
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Posted on December 3, 2007 9:00 AM • 13 Comments •
Which read(s): 1. contain either a SNP (a single nucleotide polymorphism) or a position where different members of a multi-gene family have a different base? C 2. doesn't have any DNA? B 3. is a PCR product? A, B, and C. All of three reads were obtained by sequencing PCR products, generated with the same set of primers. The quality...
Posted on November 20, 2007 3:20 PM • 0 Comments •
Kind of like reading tea leaves, but more meaningful.
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Posted on November 19, 2007 10:10 AM • 10 Comments •
You too, can compare chimp and human DNA.
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Posted on November 16, 2007 8:51 AM • 0 Comments •
Can you do it? This is what bioinformatics technicians or data analysts do in diagnostic labs.
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Posted on November 15, 2007 9:09 AM • 4 Comments •
Students at Soldan International High School are participating in an amazing experiment and breaking ground that most science teachers fear to tread. Soldan students, along with hundreds of thousands of other people, are participating in the National Geographic's Genographic Project. Through this project, students send in cheek swabs, DNA is isolated from the cheek cells, and genetic markers are used...
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Posted on November 14, 2007 4:04 PM • 9 Comments •
The Wired Campus has an interesting article on nursing students at Tacoma Community College. In John Miller's class, the students practice interviewing patients in Second Life. This sort of activity, of course, is one that could be carried out in a classroom, but I can see the advantages of having student interview other "people" who are for the most part,...
Posted on November 13, 2007 4:53 PM • 3 Comments •
Congratulations to George Cachianes (who I've written about before), his amazing students from Abraham Lincoln High School, and collaborators at UCSF! These students, from a public high school no less, placed in the top 6 finalists, along with only one other US team. The other top teams were: Peking University (China), University of Science and Technology (China), University of Paris...
Posted on November 13, 2007 12:15 PM • 0 Comments •
For many years, I had my biotech students do projects where each group of students would analyze their own data, in addition to all of the data gathered by the class. I would draw a table on the white board and each group would enter their data. At the end of the class, all the groups would copy all the...
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Posted on November 13, 2007 9:20 AM • 4 Comments •
Open access to educational research would benefit us all.
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Posted on November 12, 2007 8:29 AM • 11 Comments •
An evolution activity for the classroom.
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Posted on November 9, 2007 3:47 PM • 0 Comments •
Fun ideas for your Halloween loot
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Posted on November 1, 2007 12:00 PM • 8 Comments •
I missed my chance to get my own DonorsChoose challenge together, but that doesn't mean that you have to miss your chance to contribute and, of course: WIN FABULOUS PRIZES!!!! WIN FABULOUS PRIZES!!!! WIN FABULOUS PRIZES!!!! It's easy. Just head on over to one of these pages On Being a Scientist and a Woman (Her teachers still...
Posted on October 30, 2007 1:18 PM • 0 Comments •
Metagenomics is a field where people interrogate the living world by isolating and sequencing nucleic acids. Since all living things have DNA, and viruses have either DNA or RNA, we can identify who's around by looking at bits of their genome. Researchers are using this approach to find the culprit that's killing the honeybees. We're also trying to find out...
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Posted on October 28, 2007 2:24 PM • 0 Comments •
Sequencing the dirt: see how it's done
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Posted on October 27, 2007 7:00 PM • 0 Comments •
We have lots of DNA samples from bacteria that were isolated from dirt. Now it's time to our own metagenomics project and figure out what they are. Our class project is on a much smaller scale than the honeybee metagenomics project that I wrote about yesterday, but we're using many of the same principles....
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Posted on October 26, 2007 2:20 PM • 0 Comments •
Would you like to have some fun playing with chromatograms and helping our class identify bacteria in the dirt?...
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Posted on October 24, 2007 4:05 PM • 0 Comments •
It's hard to teach bioinformatics when schools work so hard to keep us from using computers....
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Posted on October 23, 2007 2:04 PM • 14 Comments •
Welcome Bio256 students! This quarter, we're going to do some very cool things. We are going to use bioinformatics resources and tools to investigate some biological questions. My goal, is for you to remember that these resources exist and hopefully, be able to use them when you're out working in the biotech world. I don't believe that bioinformatics is a...
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Posted on October 21, 2007 4:30 PM • 2 Comments •
Our adventures with presenting posters in Second Life.
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Posted on October 15, 2007 3:34 PM • 6 Comments •
Bora and I are giving posters in Second Life. Here's how you can attend.
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Posted on October 14, 2007 10:38 PM • 21 Comments •
For the record: Chlamydia is NOT a virus. I am bummed. I like the little MicrobeWorld radio broadcasts, and the video podcasts are even more fun. But I was perusing the archives and I found this:...
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Posted on September 26, 2007 11:42 AM • 7 Comments •
Why I love Nature podcasts
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Posted on September 25, 2007 12:53 PM • 14 Comments •
Fun with molecular models!
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Posted on September 11, 2007 11:46 AM • 3 Comments •
One of the places that I've always wanted to visit in Portland, OR, is Powell's City of Books. Powell's is the kind of bookstore that people in Seattle discuss in the same reverent tones that they use when they're describing Cody's in Berkeley or City Light in San Francisco. It's not just a bookstore. It's a destination. I guess that's...
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Posted on September 10, 2007 8:30 AM • 6 Comments •
Bertalan Meskó shares his strategies for keeping up and gives instructions so you can do the same. He shows how you can save your favorite PubMed searches and have NCBI send you e-mails about new papers. He describes some third party PubMed tools that make pretty graphs. Last, he discusses RSS readers, Connotea, and BioWizard. It's all very helpful and...
Posted on September 8, 2007 11:14 AM • 3 Comments •
During the past few Fridays (or least here and here), we've been looking at a paper that was published from China with some Β-lactamase sequences that were supposedly from Streptococcus pneumoniae. The amazing thing about these particular sequences is that Β-lactamase has never been seen in S. pneumoniae before, making this a rather significant (and possibly scary) discovery. If it's...
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Posted on September 7, 2007 8:43 AM • 5 Comments •
If you've read any of the many stories lately about Craig Venter or Jim Watson's genome, you've probably seen a "SNP" appear somewhere. (If you haven't read any of the stories, CNN has one here, and my fellow bloggers have posted several here, here, here, here, here, and here.) You may be wondering, and rightly so: just what is a...
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Posted on September 5, 2007 10:35 AM • 4 Comments •
Some of them work for Bayer.
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Posted on August 27, 2007 2:09 PM • 1 Comments •
Why the ABRF of course! I spend a fair amount time every summer giving workshops for college and high-school teachers on genomics and bioinformatics. One of the things that always surprises them, is the amount of lab work that's carried out by people working in shared, or core lab facilities. For example, if I was working at a research university...
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Posted on August 25, 2007 5:30 PM • 0 Comments •
I began this series last week with a question about a DNA sequence that was published and reported to be one the first beta-lactamases to be found in Streptococcus pneumoniae. Mike has a great post about one of problems with this paper. I think the data themselves are awfully suspicious....
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Posted on August 24, 2007 6:44 PM • 4 Comments •
What's the connection?(image from Newton TAB blog) I have to admit, I don't know. But, I do know where you can find out. Dr. Gerard Cangelosi, from the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, will be speaking about tuberculosis, godzilla, and XDR-TB, Monday night, 7 pm at the Pub at Ravenna Third Place as part of Science on Tap. tags: tuberculosis, informal...
Posted on August 24, 2007 12:00 PM • 1 Comments •
Charles Darwin was so fascinated by beetles he paid people to help him build his collection. The Coleopterists Society and the Smithsonian Institute want to help kids explore the wonders of beetles, too. They're providing grants for kids, in grades 7-12 to work on beetle biology. Applications are due by November 15, 2007....
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Posted on August 23, 2007 3:00 PM • 1 Comments •
I get asked this question often enough and now that's it's come up again, it seems that I might as well answer it once and for all and get it over with....
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Posted on August 22, 2007 9:16 AM • 11 Comments •
Developing "biological intuition" through case studies
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Posted on August 17, 2007 1:53 PM • 0 Comments •
Amateur astronomers unite! The pros want your help! image from Astronomy Picture of the Day, Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Aloisi (STScI / ESA), Hubble Heritage (STScI / AURA) - ESA/Hubble Collaboration I learned about this from the Washington Science Teachers Assocation. Galaxy Zoo and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey are looking for your help in sorting out different galaxies. It's...
Posted on July 30, 2007 3:35 PM • 0 Comments •
I've had some requests for some more molecular puzzles since the last one that I posted (see A DNA puzzle ). One person liked it so much he even blogged about it. So, here's one for you to chew on over the weekend. This puzzle is a variation of an activity in Exploring DNA Structure, a CD/lab book that I...
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Posted on July 27, 2007 4:17 PM • 3 Comments •
Not content with his recent exploits in human experimentation and cavorting with Plosites in San Francisco, Professor Steve Steve jetted across the country once again, last week, hitting both both Blacksburg, VA and Seattle, WA, and creating pandemonium wherever he went. And raising the question - how does he get back and forth across the coast so quickly? Will you...
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Posted on July 25, 2007 8:32 AM • 0 Comments •
Software testing and the scientific method.
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Posted on July 23, 2007 3:46 PM • 0 Comments •
Where does bioinformatics fit in the biotech food chain?
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Posted on July 17, 2007 8:00 AM • 31 Comments •
Some things I like, some were surprises.
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Posted on July 16, 2007 12:13 PM • 19 Comments •
It's okay, they're science teachers.
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Posted on July 15, 2007 2:17 PM • 3 Comments •
This DNA is nonpareil.
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Posted on July 13, 2007 9:18 AM • 3 Comments •
BLAST has gotten harder.
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Posted on July 12, 2007 1:39 PM • 4 Comments •
What do people in biotechnology do on the job? What can students do with a science degree once they've finished college? Some answers can be found at the "Life Sciences Central web site. Created by the Workforce Development Council of Seattle-King County, this is a wonderful resource for anyone who's considering biotechnology for a potential career. My favorite part of...
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Posted on July 11, 2007 8:32 AM • 4 Comments •
It's a pair of bases, but something's not quite right.
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Posted on July 10, 2007 8:54 PM • 4 Comments •
Answers to a commenter who bemoans bioinformatics education.
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Posted on June 20, 2007 1:35 PM • 8 Comments •
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...
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Posted on June 19, 2007 1:41 PM • 14 Comments •
Could a protein from a virus help plants handle global warming?
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Posted on June 1, 2007 9:15 AM • 0 Comments •
Assigned readings on BLAST and phylogenetics.
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Posted on May 29, 2007 9:19 AM • 0 Comments •
Through the Related Structures tab and what I found there.
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Posted on May 25, 2007 9:00 AM • 2 Comments •
One last experiment with PubMed (for now).
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Posted on May 24, 2007 2:34 PM • 2 Comments •
Which math courses are best for biologists?
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Posted on May 23, 2007 1:22 PM • 13 Comments •
Instructions for using my new favorite method.
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Posted on May 23, 2007 10:06 AM • 14 Comments •
We do an informatics experiment with PubMed to compare different search techniques.
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Posted on May 22, 2007 9:01 AM • 10 Comments •
Why do high schoolers think doctors should understand evolution?
Posted on May 21, 2007 3:13 PM • 0 Comments •
Learn astronomy by playing the game
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Posted on May 21, 2007 2:43 PM • 5 Comments •
The trials of an English physician.
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Posted on May 21, 2007 8:38 AM • 2 Comments •
How does grass grow in the hot, inhospitable soils of Yellowstone National Park?
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Posted on May 18, 2007 8:43 AM • 0 Comments •
Do you want to learn how to use some cool biotechnology and bioinformatics methods in your college or high school class? If you're on the East coast, the best place to go is the Fralin Biotechnology Conference at Virignia Tech, July 18-21st. (Yes, it's the same Virgina Tech, and that's why I waited to post this announcement). There's something for...
Posted on May 11, 2007 10:05 AM • 0 Comments •
tags: moose, bioinformatics class, willows, plant genes PZ's morning post about a bear killing a moose in someone's yard (they do live in Alaska, after all), reminded me that it's time to make an announcement about our upcoming course. No, no, no! We're not going to kill any moose on the premises. We're going to learn about the moose and...
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Posted on May 10, 2007 5:34 PM • 3 Comments •
Science labs are not for all people.
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Posted on March 31, 2007 7:44 PM • 7 Comments •
Learn how to integrate ethics into your science classroom.
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Posted on March 14, 2007 3:35 PM • 0 Comments •
It must be spring. Summer course announcements are popping up everywhere and this site is no exception. Last Friday, I posted an announcement about our summer bioinformatics course in Alaska, June 27-29th. This week, I have a couple more conferences to announce. Naturally, I'll be at both of them, leading hands-on workshops for college and high school teachers in using...
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Posted on March 10, 2007 9:00 AM • 0 Comments •
Registration has opened a bit late this year, but it's always tricky when large programs change hands. The Chautauqua Short Course program for College Teachers is no different. In fact, as far as I know, we may still be waiting for the National Science Foundation to make a final decision on funding. Still, summer is rapidly approaching and I know...
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Posted on March 9, 2007 11:55 AM • 0 Comments •
How do microbiologists determine which microbe caused a disease? As Tara has eloquently described (I, II), we are covered with bacteria and other microbes. A reasonable question then, is when we get sick, how do we which little devil deserves the blame?...
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Posted on February 17, 2007 3:29 PM • 7 Comments •
Win cash or other prizes!
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Posted on February 17, 2007 11:37 AM • 2 Comments •
The best place for biology words.
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Posted on February 9, 2007 11:58 AM • 3 Comments •
How to win the X PRIZE in genomics In October, 2006, the X PRIZE foundation announced that second X prize would focus on genomics. The first team to successfully sequence 100 human genomes in 10 days will win $10 million dollars. And I would venture to guess, that the winning team would also win in the IP (intellectual property) game...
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Posted on February 5, 2007 9:00 AM • 2 Comments •
`When I make a word do a lot of work like that,' said Humpty Dumpty, `I always pay it extra.' -Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll In biology, we often ask our words do a lot of work. In what other field would we write direction like this "Transfer 10 lambda of lambda phage DNA into a cuvette and...
Posted on February 3, 2007 8:13 PM • 2 Comments •
Defining a biology term for scientists in other disciplines.
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Posted on February 2, 2007 2:23 PM • 6 Comments •
Chimeras invade the sequencing lab!
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Posted on February 1, 2007 6:01 PM • 0 Comments •
Send in the clones, but only the random ones.
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Posted on January 31, 2007 1:02 PM • 2 Comments •
"How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky?"
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Posted on January 30, 2007 4:49 PM • 2 Comments •
Hot springs, salty lakes, arid soil and good science.
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Posted on January 29, 2007 11:39 AM • 1 Comments •
In which we define reads, chromatograms, and shotgun sequencing.
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Posted on January 28, 2007 8:51 PM • 2 Comments •
Some background on the strategies: mapping vs. shotgun
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Posted on January 27, 2007 1:50 PM • 2 Comments •
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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