Computational Tools for Biology: Sandboxes to Think and Play With

Computational Tools for Biology: Sandboxes to Think and Play With

Santa Fe Institute via YouTube Direct link

Streamline problems with gels to create a working mental model which creates faster results

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Streamline problems with gels to create a working mental model which creates faster results

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Computational Tools for Biology: Sandboxes to Think and Play With

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  1. 1 The similarities between game design and nanotechnology.
  2. 2 Description of simulation game spore and how it takes place over many different scales
  3. 3 Discussion of project Earth Primer that takes simulation and packages them in various forms
  4. 4 What is nanotechnology?
  5. 5 How to make useful tools out of nature’s building blocks
  6. 6 Why to take DNA out of the cell and use it as a building block
  7. 7 How to use DNA for nanotechnology
  8. 8 Explaining science to others
  9. 9 Inspiring others to collaborate with each other
  10. 10 New tool that involves simulation and what happens in a research lab
  11. 11 Subject of gel electrophoresis such as how it’s used to solve crimes with DNA
  12. 12 Connecting molecules in sample tube with gels
  13. 13 Band patterns which are different molecules with different characteristics which cause them to migrate differently
  14. 14 The difficulties in interpreting gels
  15. 15 How to get the same band with a different molecule
  16. 16 Running gels is like baking which relates to chemistry
  17. 17 Troubleshooting in science is how you get answers which is why it’s incorporated into this new tool.
  18. 18 Simulations bring invisible phenomena to life with simultaneous linked views
  19. 19 Streamline problems with gels to create a working mental model which creates faster results
  20. 20 What additional elements can affect the particles running inside the gel with experiments in the lab?
  21. 21 Is the simulation model tied to empirical data or a made-up model that approximates it?
  22. 22 What is the timetable for curing diseases through DNA?

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