Cresiski, Robin H.2024-09-242024-09-242014-12-15Cresiski, Robin Herlands. “Undergraduate Bioinformatics Workshops Provide Perceived Skills.” Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education 15, no. 2 (December 15, 2014): 292–94. https://doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.v15i2.638.https://doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.v15i2.638http://hdl.handle.net/11603/36387Bioinformatics is becoming an important part of undergraduate curriculum, but expertise and well-evaluated teaching materials may not be available on every campus. Here, a guest speaker was utilized to introduce bioinformatics and web-available exercises were adapted for student investigation. Students used web-based nucleotide comparison tools to examine the medical and evolutionary relevance of a unidentified genetic sequence. Based on pre- and post-workshop surveys, there were significant gains in the students understanding of bioinformatics, as well as their perceived skills in using bioinformatics tools. The relevance of bioinformatics to a student’s career seemed dependent on career aspirations.3 pagesen-USAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Text