Computational Biology For Educators Summary

Computational Biology for Biology Educators

June 7 - 13, 2009

University of California-Merced, Merced, CA

This workshop introduced college faculty to various resources that can be used to prepare students to acquire computational thinking, modeling and quantitative analysis skills that have become essential to the practice of modern biology. Hands-on sessions with software for building and running dynamic models, finding sequence motifs, inferring phylogeny and predicting structure were coupled with pedagogy and examples of integration into the biology classroom.