Bioinformatics demands professionals skilled in both computing and the biological sciences, yet introducing these interdisciplinary concepts at earlier educational stages remains challenging. Here, we ...

In his influential book Lifelong Kindergarten, Mitchel Resnick writes about projects with low floors, high ceilings, and wide walls. Seymour Papert developed the idea behind the first two: Low floors ...

Genes specifying long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) occupy a large fraction of the genomes of complex organisms. The term 'lncRNAs' encompasses RNA polymerase I (Pol I), Pol II and Pol III transcribed ...

Blocks programming environments have emerged as a popular way to introduce coding and as a stepping stone to traditional text-based languages, but they can also be used to write “real code.” Blocks ...

I had my first computer programming experience in ninth grade. I had just moved, and my new guidance counselor persuaded me to take a computer programming class because there were no other open ...