{"id":4145,"date":"2017-12-11T10:38:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T10:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/?p=4145"},"modified":"2017-12-11T10:38:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T10:38:58","slug":"4273pi-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/4273pi-project\/","title":{"rendered":"4273pi Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Bioinformatician Ramon Fallon recently visited Dundee and Angus College Gardyne Campus and Webster High School, Kirriemuir.\u00a0 This was part of ex-University of St Andrews, now University of Edinburgh, Daniel Barker&#8217;s 4273pi initiative to teach schools about bioinformatics.\u00a0 A 3 hour workshop,\u00a0 taught Biology\u00a0students about mutations, how to use blast to search for homologous genes\u00a0and how to use the command-line\u00a0for bioinformatics on the Raspberry Pi.<\/p>\n<p>Currently the standard textbook only has one page devoted to Bioinformatics.\u00a0Ramon was there to assist the groups get through the worksheet and answer their\u00a0questions. \u00a0One of the pupils, unprompted, wrote the picture&#8217;s comments onto a file for testing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4146 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2017\/12\/4273pi-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Bioinformatician Ramon Fallon recently visited Dundee and Angus College Gardyne Campus and Webster High School, Kirriemuir as part of the 4273pi initiative to teach schools about bioinformatics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":4146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[21,130,757],"class_list":["post-4145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorised","tag-4273pi","tag-bioinformatics","tag-mr-ramon-fallon"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 16:23:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}