Category: Education & Fun

Meta!Blast 2017.08 – Game to Explore the Complexities of Cell and Metabolic Biology

Meta!Blast 2017.08

:: DESCRIPTION

Meta!Blast is a real-time 3D action-adventure game that puts you in the pilot’s seat. Shrink down to microscopic size and explore the vivid, dynamic world of a soybean plant cell spinning out of control. Interact with numerous characters, fight off plant pathogens, and discover how important plants are to the survival of the human race. The eukaryotic cell is comprised of a dizzying array of molecules, proteins, and organelles. To understand the nature of these entities and their processes across both time and space can be a daunting task. The goal of Meta!Blast is to provide a medium that lends itself to the comprehension of cell and metabolic biology.

::DEVELOPER

Meta!Blast team

:: SCREENSHOTS

MetaBlast

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Windows / MacOs

:: DOWNLOAD

 Meta!Blast 

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation

Schneller W, Campbell PJ, Bassham D, Wurtele ES 2012.
Meta!Blast computer pipeline from science to 3D art to education.
Engineering of Virtual Reality, Eds: McDowall IE, Dolinsky M. International Society for Optics and Photonics. SPIE 828905. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.911289

ImmuneQuest – A College-level Educational Game to experience how the Immune System Works

ImmuneQuest

:: DESCRIPTION

ImmuneQuest is an innovative educational game for college students that brings immunology to life. Designed to augment an educator’s existing curriculum, ImmuneQuest allows students to build and control a virtual immune system to defend their human host from increasingly cunning microbes.

::DEVELOPER

Syandus Inc.

:: SCREENSHOTS

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Windows/Mac OSX

:: DOWNLOAD

 ImmuneQuest

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Immune Defense – Biochemistry Strategy Game

Immune Defense

:: DESCRIPTION

Immune Defense is a Real Time Strategy (RTS) game. The player deploys 7 types of white blood cells against bacteria, parasites, viruses and even cancer… Our goal is to teach the basics of cell biology and biochemistry in an intuitive way. To beat Immune Defense, the player needs to know what proteins do, what receptors do, how cells respond to signals in the environment, how random events lead to predictable behaviors … Additionally, the player battles HIV, TB, Listeria, a Malaria-like organism and learns exactly how vaccination is helpful, why viruses are difficult to detect and why TB and AIDS are so difficult to overcome.

::DEVELOPER

Molecular Jig Games

:: SCREENSHOTS

:: REQUIREMENTS

:: DOWNLOAD

 Immune Defense

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GDL – Genomics Digital Lab

GDL

:: DESCRIPTION

Genomics Digital Lab (GDL) is an award winning, integrated on-line learning environment where users experience the world of biology through immersive discovery-based learning. Unlike textbooks, GDL takes an integrated, hands-on approach to help learners understand the big picture of cell biology and its importance in our lives.

::DEVELOPER

Spongelab

:: SCREENSHOTS

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Web Browser

:: DOWNLOAD

  NO

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Kalzium 21.08.0 – Periodic Table of Elements

Kalzium 21.08.0

:: DESCRIPTION

Kalzium is your digital replacement for the periodic table on paper. It is a program that visualizes the Periodic Table of Elements (PSE) and includes basic information about all common elements in the PSE. It has a gained much more functions over time.

::DEVELOPER

Kalzium Team

:: SCREENSHOTS

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Windows / MacOsX / Linux
  • C++ Complier

:: DOWNLOAD

 Kalzium

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GenomeCache 2.0.1 – Explore both McMillian Park and the realm of the Human Genome

GenomeCache 2.0.1

:: DESCRIPTION

Genome Cache  was developed by the Educational Outreach Team at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, Alabama. The original Genome Walk was created for McMillian Park, an outdoor area on the HudsonAlpha campus. The goal of Genome Cache? was to provide an engaging way for students and the public to explore both McMillian Park and the realm of the human genome.

::DEVELOPER

HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology

:: SCREENSHOTS

:: REQUIREMENTS

  •  iPad / iPhone

:: DOWNLOAD

 GenomeCache

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Protein Purification 1.8.0 – Protein Purification Simulation

Protein Purification 1.8.0

:: DESCRIPTION

Protein Purification is the latest version of the award-winning program that has been widely used in schools, colleges and universities since 1983. Its built-in tutorial aims to guide you through a simulation of some of the more commonly-used protein separation techniques and to let you experiment with the simulation. It starts off by letting you examine how a simple mixture of proteins behaves during gel filtration and ion-exchange chromatography and then goes on to allow the design and testing of full purification protocols using more complex mixtures of proteins.

::DEVELOPER

Andrew Booth

:: SCREENSHOTS

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • iPad/iPhone/Windows/Android

:: DOWNLOAD

 Protein Purification

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Foldit 20210811 – Solve Puzzles for Protein Folding

Foldit 20210811

:: DESCRIPTION

FoldIt is an online game in which humans try to solve one of the hardest computational problems in biology: protein folding. You don’t need to know anything about biology to play the game, although a little background will help. Most of the players of foldit are not biologists.

::DEVELOPER

Foldit Team

:: SCREENSHOTS

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Windows / Linux / MacOsX

:: DOWNLOAD

Foldit

:: MORE INFORMATION

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