Bio Suite as Teaching Platform in a Virtual Environment

Abstract

Bio Suite is a comprehensive Bioinformatics software package developed under a unique academia industry collaboration. The product is hosted on Amazon cloud for easy access to users from anywhere. Bio Suite is an efficient and easy to use state of the art Bioinformatics analysis package that is well suited to be a good teaching tool. Exploiting this feature of Bio Suite, a complete web course has been designed, which describes in detail both basic and advanced concepts in Bioinformatics. This web course is proposed to be hosted on "Knome" - a TCS Knowledge Ecosystem Solution, based on social networking concepts, for learning and sharing. The availability of the web course on a user friendly platform, supported by BioSuite deployed on cloud should make the learning experience easy and enjoyable for students.