Bio Suite as Teaching Platform in a Virtual Environment

Author

Manne, Usha ; Gvl, Sowjanya ; Pradhan, Meenakshi ; Srinivasan, Harini ; Bung, Navneet ; Srinivasan, Rajgopal ; Bulusu, Gopalakrishnan

Author_Institution

TCS Innovation Labs., TATA Consultancy Services Ltd., Hyderabad, India

fYear

2012

fDate

18-20 July 2012

Firstpage

233

Lastpage

234

Abstract

Bio Suite is a comprehensive Bioinformatics software package developed under a unique academia industry collaboration. The product is hosted on Amazon cloud for easy access to users from anywhere. Bio Suite is an efficient and easy to use state of the art Bioinformatics analysis package that is well suited to be a good teaching tool. Exploiting this feature of Bio Suite, a complete web course has been designed, which describes in detail both basic and advanced concepts in Bioinformatics. This web course is proposed to be hosted on "Knome" - a TCS Knowledge Ecosystem Solution, based on social networking concepts, for learning and sharing. The availability of the web course on a user friendly platform, supported by BioSuite deployed on cloud should make the learning experience easy and enjoyable for students.

Keywords

bioinformatics; biomedical education; cloud computing; computer aided instruction; educational courses; social networking (online); software packages; teaching; Amazon cloud; Bio Suite; Knome; TCS knowledge ecosystem solution; academia industry collaboration; bioinformatics software package; complete Web course; social networking concepts; teaching platform; teaching tool; user friendly platform; virtual environment; Bioinformatics; Collaboration; Education; Social network services; Software packages; Technological innovation; Bio Suite; Bioinformatics; Knome; cloud; course; teaching;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Technology for Education (T4E), 2012 IEEE Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hyderabad

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2173-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/T4E.2012.62

Filename

6305979