[HTML][HTML] Bioinformatics-based activities in high school: fostering students' literacy, interest, and attitudes on gene regulation, genomics, and evolution

A Martins, MJ Fonseca, M Lemos, L Lencastre… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The key role of bioinformatics in explaining biological phenomena calls for the need to
rethink didactic approaches at high school aligned with a new scientific reality. Despite …

Mining the genome: using bioinformatics tools in the classroom to support student discovery of genes

A Martins, MJ Fonseca, F Tavares - The American Biology …, 2018 - online.ucpress.edu
Adapting research-driven routines to the classroom context can promote innovative and
motivational learning environments. Using a case-study approach, we propose a set of …

Making authentic science accessible—the benefits and challenges of integrating bioinformatics into a high-school science curriculum

Y Machluf, H Gelbart, S Ben-Dor… - Briefings in …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Despite the central place held by bioinformatics in modern life sciences and related areas, it
has only recently been integrated to a limited extent into high-school teaching and learning …

Integrating bioinformatics into senior high school: design principles and implications

Y Machluf, A Yarden - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Bioinformatics is an integral part of modern life sciences. It has revolutionized and redefined
how research is carried out and has had an enormous impact on biotechnology, medicine …

[HTML][HTML] Bioinformatics goes to school—new avenues for teaching contemporary biology

L Wood, P Gebhardt - PLoS Computational Biology, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Since 2010, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's (EMBL) Heidelberg laboratory
and the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) have jointly run bioinformatics training …

[HTML][HTML] Bioinformatics projects supporting life-sciences learning in high schools

I Marques, P Almeida, R Alves, MJ Dias… - PLoS computational …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The interdisciplinary nature of bioinformatics makes it an ideal framework to develop
activities enabling enquiry-based learning. We describe here the development and …

A survey of scholarly literature describing the field of bioinformatics education and bioinformatics educational research

AJ Magana, M Taleyarkhan, DR Alvarado… - CBE—Life Sciences …, 2014 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Bioinformatics education can be broadly defined as the teaching and learning of the use of
computer and information technology, along with mathematical and statistical analysis for …

[HTML][HTML] Incorporating genomics and bioinformatics across the life sciences curriculum

JL Ditty, CA Kvaal, B Goodner, SK Freyermuth… - PLoS …, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Undergraduate life sciences education needs an overhaul, as clearly described in the
National Research Council of the National Academies' publication BIO 2010: Transforming …

[HTML][HTML] Bioinformatics calls the school: Use of smartphones to introduce Python for bioinformatics in high schools

AJ Velez Rueda, GI Benítez, J Marchetti… - PLoS computational …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The dynamic nature of technological developments invites us to rethink the learning spaces.
In this context, science education can be enriched by the contribution of new computational …

[HTML][HTML] NIBLSE: A network for integrating bioinformatics into life sciences education

E Dinsdale, SCR Elgin, N Grandgenett… - CBE—Life Sciences …, 2015 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Letter to the Editor methods. We describe here our efforts to assemble a network of like-
minded bioinformatics educators both to undertake this process and to identify professional …