COURSEWORK GRANT: UNDERGRADUATE COURSE ON INTRO TO BIOINFORMATICS

Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA

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This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. Primary support for the subproject and the subproject's principal investigator may have been provided by other sources, including other NIH sources. The Total Cost listed for the subproject likely represents the estimated amount of Center infrastructure utilized by the subproject, not direct funding provided by the NCRR grant to the subproject or subproject staff. The course grant helped us develop an undergraduate course in Bioinformatics. It allowed students access to the supercomputer. Students from biology and computer science departments of Johnson C. Smith University greatly benefited from this grant. This course was offered for two semesters in 2005-2006. Fourteen students were enrolled in the first semester and 19 in the second semester. The students learned the proper use of the supercomputer and completed assignments related to the course. The assignments included working with files and directories using linux operating system, creating files with vi text editor, retrieving sequences from databases, database searching and alignment etc. The enrollment in this course has been slowly increasing as more students become aware of the importance of including bioinformatics in their curriculum.