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A web‐based tutorial in bioinformatics for undergraduates

Bioinformatics is becoming increasingly important in modern science, but opportunities to present this area to undergraduates are limited. I have prepared a web‐based tutorial on fundamental concepts in bioinformatics that can be implemented in a variety of contexts in the undergraduate curriculum (introductory biology, biochemistry, molecular biology, etc). The Tutorial provides background information and exercises in five areas: (1) Searching the Scientific Literature (the most fundamental skill of all), (2) Finding the nucleotide sequence for a known gene in the GenBank database, (3) Determining the correct reading frame for an unknown DNA sequence, (4) Using BLAST to identify a putative reading frame, and (5) Searching for sequence motifs in a given protein. This site is designed to give students hands‐on experience with some of the fundamental tools used in modern molecular biology and to help students move away from text‐book based information sources and to the actual research tools. The site can be viewed at http://ase.tufts.edu/biology/bioinformatics/index.html.