| Useful Features
|
for Courses |
Actual Classroom Use |
Usage Problems |
| Tutorials are well designed and provide practice in the skills needed
to analyze gene and protein sequences. |
Genetics Analysis and Cell Physiology |
Sickle Cell Anemia is a good first tutorial. The Cystic Fibrosis
tutorial is more complex and should be used after SCA. |
Make hard copies of the instructions so students are not impeded
by clicking back and forth between the instruction screen and the
tutorial screen. |
| Comparison of nucleic or amino acid sequences of various organisms
provides
a means of finding evolutionary relationships. |
see above |
The SRS Database Search allows students to find the protein
product corresponding to a genomic sequence. |
Afternoon access was much slower than morning access. |
| Protein alignments enable the construction of phylogenetic trees. |
see above |
The CLUSTAL_W function allows multiple sequences to be aligned. |
When searches for some proteins were unsuccessful, students were
directed to search for other proteins so they could master the
Clustal_W function. |
