Gene Sleuthing Workshop

• DNA, RNA, and Proteins
  
• The Genetic Code 
• NCBI Genomic Databases
• DNA/RNA sequence to protein sequence translation
  
• Finding Genes: Open Reading Frames
  
• Sequence Alignment using Dot Plots
  
• Translation Terminators
• Exons and introns

Further Reading

• American Scientist article on ``The Invention of the Genetic Code''