Bioinformatics as educational resource: Genetic engineering project

The use computational tools to process curricular contents of the different subjects, as well as to learn their own management, has grown exponentially in recent years. The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can contribute to universal access to education, equality in education, the exercise of quality teaching and to the learning and professional development of teachers, as well as to a more efficient management and administration of the education system. However, it is necessary to design and develop educational projects that are consistent with educational needs. With this project, based on the use of basic bioinformatics programs within the framework of a genetic engineering project, students will not only acquire basic notions about the use and management of these programs, which will be required in their professional life as scientists, but also it will serve to strengthen and contextualize concepts related to the process itself. Based on the objective of mutation of a particular gene, students will be able to develop a strategy that will report a large amount of information about it using only computational tools.