An effort to introduce local high school students to the emerging field of bioinformatics—and hopefully inspire some to pursue studies, and eventually jobs, in the field—is moving to the next level ...

SYBB 311/411A is a 5-week course that introduces students to the high-throughput technologies used to collect data for bioinformatics research in the fields of genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics.

Students will identify gene regulatory sequences in insect genomes using the "SCRMshaw" software pipeline developed in my laboratory, and/or work on improvements to this pipeline. Identifying and ...