bioinformatics

[Bill Shear]

I'm looking for a resource, internet or otherwise, that will help me
introduce students to bioinformatics, molecular sequence databases, etc.,
for use in systematic biology.  I would like to design an exercise which
will show students how to use these resources.

First I need to learn about them for myself!

Any help appreciated.  I do know about Edvotek kit #340, which deals with
some of this information but from the viewpoint of converting DNA sequence
information to gene products.  However, I want to get at this from a
systematics point of view; i.e. constructing phylogenies (simple ones),
etc.

Bill Shear
Department of Biology
Hampden-Sydney College
Hampden-Sydney VA 23943
(804)223-6172
FAX (804)223-6374
email<bills at hsc.edu>