immunology

The Allen Institute has continued to add to the free resources they make available to teachers. Along with the data sets and lesson plans I mentioned in my previous blogs ( Virtual Teaching with Allen Institute Open Data Sets , New Resources at the Allen Institute for Cell Science , Allen Institute Resources for Teachers ) they now have additional lesson plans covering an even wider range of topics. The Institute's lesson plans and resources are tailored for high school and college level educators. Activities are available for intro high school biology, AP/IB biology,... Read more

The technological Singularity is the moment beyond which "technological progress will become incomprehensibly rapid and complicated [1].” Hmmm. That sounds like bioinformatics.

Surviving the Singularity requires reducing complexity. This was the topic of a recent three-day Cyverse Container Camp hosted at the University of Arizona, Tucson AZ. I attended the camp as part of Digital World Biology's effort to design the advanced bioinformatics portion of Shoreline Community College's Immuno-biotechnology certificate [2]. From what I learned, containers will have a significant role in bioinformatics computing and teaching data... Read more