Course in a Box: Bioinformatics for Biology and Biotech

Program Description

InnovATEBIO offers a number of Course-in-a-Box resources intended for instructors to adapt and introduce into new courses. These collections of resources have been compiled and contributed by instructors of InnovATEBIO programs. Resources can include course descriptions, student outcomes, schedules, reading assignments, laboratory exercise, lecture materials, homework, classroom activities, exams, and videos.

Course Description

Bioinformatics for Biology and Biotech provides students with background knowledge and practice in locating, using, and analyzing molecular information and using their analyses to predict the effects of mutations on a protein's structure and function. By the end of the course, students will be able to be given a cDNA sequence with a mutation, "identify the gene of origin, identify and characterize the mutation, identify the affected codon, where it is located in a gene, and the type of mutation (tmissense, nonsense, frameshift), use databases to find information about the mutation, locate the mutation in a molecular structure model, identify chemical bonds that would have been formed by the original amino acid, and predict how the mutation would change the ability to form those bonds." Textbooks, additional resources, hardware and software information, course development information, learning objectives, and a schedule are provided.