Teaching Resources

Molecular Methods of Species Identification

Inspector Foode manages a section in a fictitious government department of public health. The user plays the role of a technical assistant charged with identifying meat samples using DNA sequences and methods such as DNA Barcoding and BLAST. (Howard Ross)

Recreating Allan Wilson's Research

Allan Wilson's research pushed both technical and intellectual boundaries, especially with respect to the timing and location of human origin. This site enables the user to recreate some of Wilson's research. The user is able to revisit some of the original data or results and to re-perform some of the analyses in Wilson's research. It gives a glimpse of the issues involved in scientific research. (Howard Ross)