Online laboratory exercise on computational biology: Phylogenetic analyses and protein modeling based on SARS-CoV-2 data during COVID-19 remote instruction.

Nicholas Steven Lorusso Maria Shumskaya

Published in: Biochemistry and molecular biology education : a bimonthly publication of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2020)

Suspended on-site instruction during the COVID-19 created an exceptional challenge for teaching hands-on laboratory classes. We designed an online laboratory activity using computational biology techniques to overcome this issue. This set of online exercises introduces bioinformatics skills into existing curricula in the form of guided tutorials based on molecular data on SARS-CoV-2 virus.

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