Teaching bioinformatics at the secondary school level

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Lewitter, Fran ^a   Bourne, Philip E ^b  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SECONDARY SCHOOLS;

BIOINFORMATICS;

BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COURSE CONTENT; CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT; EDITORIAL; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; FUNDING; HIGH SCHOOL; ONLINE SYSTEM; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; ADOLESCENT; BIOLOGY; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; HUMAN; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; SCHOOL; STUDENT; TEACHING;

ADOLESCENT; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CURRICULUM; HUMANS; INTERNET; SCHOOLS; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

EID: 80055085535     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002242     Document Type: Editorial

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