Resources for an Introduction to Genomics

General Background

• Molecular Biology: Major Concepts and Learning Activities reviews background concepts for understanding genomics and suggests introductory minds-on learning activities. Recommended activities to prepare your students for Discovering the Genome include:
• Understanding the Functions of Proteins and DNA
• DNA
• DNA Structure Function and Replication
• Transcription and Translation – From Gene to Protein – hands-on or analysis and discussion
• The Molecular Biology of Mutations and Muscular Dystrophy
• Mitosis – How Each New Cell Gets a Complete Set of Genes (including student understanding of DNA, genes, alleles and chromosomes)
• Meiosis and Fertilization – How Genes Are Inherited
• Genetics – Major Concepts and Learning Activities recommends an integrated sequence of activities to help students understand how genes influence phenotypic characteristics and how genes are transmitted from parents to offspring.
• Help Me Understand Genetics, published by the National Institutes of Health U.S. National Library of Medicine, provides a medically related genetics/genomics primer.

Genomics Glossaries

• Discovering the Genome Glossary
• Genome News Network Genome Glossary
• National Center for Biotechnology Information Genome Glossary
• National Human Genome Research Institute Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms
• The Wellcome Genome Campus YourGenome.org Glossary
• US Dept of Energy Genome Glossary

Human Genome Project Background

• Timeline of the Human Genome: https://unlockinglifescode.org/timeline?tid=4
• About the Human Genome Project: https://www.genome.gov/25019879

Course Materials

• Discovering the Genome Course Modules: http://www.DiscoveringTheGenome.org/discovering-genome
• GeneEd at NIH: https://geneed.nlm.nih.gov/specialty.php?spageID=2
• Genome: Unlocking Life's Code: https://unlockinglifescode.org/learn/curriculum
• Molecular Biology: Major Concepts and Learning Activities reviews background concepts and introductory minds-on learning activities.
• Teaching the Genome Generation: https://www.jax.org/education-and-learning/high-school-students-and-undergraduates/teaching-the-genome-generation#

Videos

• Discovering the Genome YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdtJrIFNz0LbNTym3GrOxwA
• YourGenome.org: http://www.yourgenome.org/videos

Genomics Databases

• Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD): http://www.boldsystems.org/
• NCBI database of genes: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene
• OMIM database: http://www.omim.org/
• Plasmodium genomic database: http://plasmoDB.org
• Genome database for Toxoplasma: http://toxodb.org/toxo/showXmlDataContent.do?name=XmlQuestions.About