Biology Student Workbench: Inquiry Tools for the Use of Molecular Data in Undergraduate Biology

生物学学生工作台：在本科生物学中使用分子数据的查询工具

基本信息

批准号：
9950689
负责人：
Eric Jakobsson
金额：
$ 31.97万
依托单位：
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
1999
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
1999-07-15 至 2002-06-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9950689&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Biology Student Workbench Inquiry Tools

项目摘要

The products from this project include: 1) the Biology Student Workbench, an educational front-end to the powerful suite of bioinformatics tools comprising the Biology Workbench,; and 2) a set of inquiry-based curricular materials based on use of the workbench. The Biology Student Workbench brings the advanced computational infrastructure used by today's scientists to any student desktop machine with a web browser. The basis of this new tool for undergraduate students and faculty, the Biology Workbench (http://bioweb.ncsa.uiuc.edu/), provides researchers a suite of interactive tools based on a number of biology databases including: sequence bioinformatics; computational studies of biological membranes; a database of neuronal pattern analysis; and a computational environment for studying ion movement in biological systems. The site has been used to: compare molecular sequences; visualize and manipulate molecular structures; and generate phylogenetic hypotheses (Kaiser, 1998). This access to a multiplicity of research analysis tools and data sources provides a rich environment for promoting student inquiry as exemplified by the eight curricular modules developed for student use: biodiversity/conservation, genology/phylogeny, molecular basis for disease, drug design, phylogenetic probes, environmental remediation, developmental biology, and agricultural applications.

该项目的产品包括：1）生物学学生工作台，这是一个由生物学工作台组成的强大生物信息学工具的教育前端； 2）基于工作台使用的一套基于查询的课程材料。生物学学生工作台将当今科学家使用的先进计算基础架构带入了带有网络浏览器的任何学生台式机。生物学工作台（http://bioweb.ncsa.uiuc.edu/）为本科生和教师的新工具的基础，为研究人员提供了基于许多生物学数据库的互动工具的套件，包括：序列生物信息学；生物膜的计算研究；神经元模式分析的数据库；以及研究生物系统中离子运动的计算环境。该位点已用于：比较分子序列；可视化和操纵分子结构；并产生系统发育假设（Kaiser，1998）。这种获取多种研究分析工具和数据源的访问为促进学生询问提供了丰富的环境，这是由供学生使用的八个课程模块所示例的：生物多样性/保守性，表示为/疾病/系统发育，疾病，药物设计，系统生成探针，环境修复，发展生物学，发育生物学和农业的分子基础。