Bioinformatics

3D View of DNA Molecule

The genome for a human, a mouse, or even a virus contains billions of base pairs of DNA sequence. How do scientists search through all of this data to make new discoveries? In this workshop, you’ll first learn how to compare organisms and how they are related using genetic information. Suppose you found a tuft of strange hair caught on a bush in the deep, dark UMass Lowell Forest. What creature left it behind??? Then, you will use 3-dimensional computer graphics to examine the structure of a complex biological molecule.

See how biologists, chemists, computer scientists, & mathematicians work together to unravel the mysteries of genes and the proteins they encode!

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Bioinformatics