NCBI Minute: Five Teaching Examples Using BLAST

Presented July 25, 2018. Sequence similarity search tools such as BLAST are fundamental to modern biology and are now taught to students in undergraduate biology classes or earlier. We have many standard demonstrations that we use to highlight the features of BLAST. These examples are also useful for teaching biology principles and techniques including evolution, taxonomy, homology, multiple sequence alignment, phylogenetic trees, primer design and gene expression analysis. This webinar will provide you with examples using NCBI BLAST that explore these principles and techniques that you can readily adapt to your classrooms. Booklet for these examples: ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/factsheets/Booklet_Teaching_BLAST.pdf To get video updates, subscribe to the NCBI YouTube channel:    / ncbinlm