Biology resources in EDUBUNTU
Prepared by
SABARISH-P
M.Sc., M.Ed., JRF & NET
Lecturer in Physical Science, Arafa Institute for Teacher Education
Attur, Thrissur.
A large number of applications for Science (Biology) Education
including PhET, BioPerl, ClustalW, Emboss, Muscle etc are included in Edubuntu.
More over a number of biological resources for secondary school students are
added to EDUBUNTU as a part of IT@ school project. These includes Biological
teaching resources for secondary level, 3D pictures, animations etc of Human
body, (Lungs, Heart, blood cells etc) various plants and animals.
1) PhET: PhET is a suite of research-based
interactive computer simulations for teaching and learning physics, chemistry,
biology, maths, and other sciences. PhET simulations can be run online or
downloaded for free from the PhET website. The simulations are animated,
interactive, and game-like environments where students learn through
exploration. They emphasize the connections between real-life phenomena and the
underlying science, and help make the visual and conceptual models of expert
scientists accessible to students. PhET simulations are primarily developed for
and tested with university and high school students, but have been found to be
educational and fun for students of all ages.
More over a number of resources useful for biologists is also available in UBUNTU.
Clustalw - This program performs
an alignment of multiple nucleotide or amino acid sequences.
Muscle - A program for
multiple alignment of protein sequences. MUSCLE stands for multiple sequence
comparison by log-expectation.
Tree View X - Tree View X is an
open source program to display phylogenetic trees on Linux, and Windows platforms.
Tree-puzzle - TREE-PUZZLE is a
computer program to reconstruct phylogenetic trees from molecular sequence data
by maximum likelihood.
UGENE - an integrated
bioinformatics suite with handy visual interface. Integrates tool for multiple sequence alignment, protein secondary
structure prediction and others.
