Bio 181L: Intro Biology Lab

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Course Software
Please do not initiate 'for credit' work before it is assigned
General info and resources at the bottom of this page.

Assessor (loads in browser; requires Shockwave)

PatternMaster for credit (week of 8/25) HowTo Instructions
PatternMaster for fun

HowTo

QuantumMine (week of 8/25)
QuantumMine for fun
HowTo: See 'Rules' in the Navigation menu within the program

BasePairer

Mendelstar (week of 9/22)
Please do not initiate this exercise before it is assigned

x_Plorer: A tool to explore crosses and outcomes; might help immensely with the Mendelstar assignment

Gameter (Week of 9/22)
Gameter for fun

StructureViewer (week of 9/29) HowTo Instructions
StructViewer

ProFolder ()

Pediducer for credit week of 10/6)
Pediducer for fun

Plotulence Mac Win

Course software MANUALS
MendelStar
PediDucer

Optional software (that may help you learn stuff)

HangTwenty (in browser)
A hangman game that uses amino acid structures instead of letters. Will help you recognize amino acides and learn their names, if you wish to

Crossword puzzles (in browser)
To help learn vocabulary. Only semi-implemented

Web/general Software

Want access to UAWiFi?

NeoOffice/J Free Word/Excel compatibles for Mac (a port of OpenOffice [Win/Mac/Linux] that runs natively on Macs)

Check your Shockwave, Flash installations
As of 6-08, Shockwave should be 11.0.0 or later; Flash 9.0.45 or later fine also(in the About box)

Shockwave | Shockwave Uninstall
(On Macs, the uninstaller is found in the menu that comes up initially selected as 'Easy Install'. On OSX, best to run the uninstaller first!)

Powerpoint Viewer Win Mac

Flash

Swiss-PDBViewer (Bruce prefers to RasMol; not scriptable)

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