Molecular Biology Program Bioinformatics and Educational Resources - Interactive Games

These games are played interactively over the internet and provide learning experiences for students that involve decision making in various graphic settings, such as setting up, running, and interpreting the results of laboratory tests. The games are suitable for advanced high school and lower level college students.

iDNAfication: Teaches students to use biology and molecular biology techniques (including DNA fingerprinting) to solve forensics mysteries. Teachers may customize the game to omit some modules and to create a list of suspects that includes the students.

Origin: Unknown: Teaches students and science educators how to utilize WWW-based Bioinformatics tools in the analysis of biological macro-molecular sequence data.

Outbreak! Teaches students the clinical and diagnostic methodologies, and skills used in microbiology.