ASM BioQUEST Bioinformatics Institute, March 2008, Washington DC Schedule for the 2008 ASM/BioQUEST Bioinformatics Institute
        BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium
American Society for Microbiology DOE Joint Genome Institute
  
 
Introducing Bioinformatics Using the Nitrogen Cycle
 
 
Authors          Audiences          Overview           Materials          Resources           Future Directions
 

 


Authors


Alyssa Bumbaugh
Penn State - Altoona College


Mark Radosevich
University of Tennessee


Ron Peck
Lawrence University

 
   
 


Possible Audiences:

Undergraduate Introductory Biology, Undergraduate Introductory Microbiolgy, Soil Microbiology  

 
 


Brief Overview:

Use bioinformatics to provide a “course capstone” to integrate sequence, structure, and function along with ecology and metabolism in an introductory biology or soils course  

 
   
 


Project Materials:

Computer  

 
 


Resources and References:

Biology Workbench NCBI KEGG pathway Swiss-Prot JGI-IMG  

 
   
 


Future Directions:

Integrate into course - adapt as necessary Design wet labs with RT-PCR Other biogeochemical cycles  

 
 


Attachments


- Introducing_Bioinformatics_Nitrogen_cycle1.ppt