Developing online educational tools for teaching bioinformatics to students.
The rising importance of bioinformatics in the global biomedical community prompts the impetus to introduce this discipline to secondary and post-secondary school students. The two local universities in Singapore are now offering formal courses in Bioinformatics to address the growing demand f...
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| Format: | Final Year Project (FYP) |
| Language: | English |
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2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/46183 |
| Summary: | The rising importance of bioinformatics in the global biomedical community prompts
the impetus to introduce this discipline to secondary and post-secondary school students. The two local universities in Singapore are now offering formal courses in
Bioinformatics to address the growing demand for individuals trained in bioinformatics.
Currently, the secondary school syllabus in Singapore does not provide adequate
bioinformatics exposure to students. In view of the current situation, it would be
beneficial for educators to try to expose secondary school students to the principles of bioinformatics and to apply the concepts to real life scenarios in the scientific world. Thus the aim of this project was to develop a bioinformatics website and several
online tools to assist secondary and post-secondary school students in learning
bioinformatics. The online tools developed in this project include a BLAST video
tutorial along with several tutorial worksheets. |
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