Virtual Anatomy Textbook

Last year was Sigbio’s revival of sorts when we displayed our interactive WWW based Virtual Anatomy Textbook at Engineering Open House (EOH). This project,begun in 1995, aims to be a good resource for college students and the like who wish to receive “filtered” information on many biological issues. To unite the “lessons” we choose the human body because it can properly exemplify many facets of biology. This year we would like to add new lessons based around a particular physiological system in the body. Thus far, we have completed the Lymphatic system and are currently searching for another.

Student Pre-Medical Resource Forum

The forum will soon be the premier web site for pre-medical students on this campus and around the country. Our site will include help on the MCAT, AMCAS, volunteering and getting the perfect reccommendation. Also, we hope to have a message board and / or chat server up and running soon to allow quick responses to questions.

CyberCell

CyberCell is a plan to model a single-cellular organism, the euglena, via a computer program. Currently, the details are yet to be worked out, but we do know that it will eventually be on the WWW and thus be programmed in Java, JavaScript, CGI or a mixture thereof. To persons wishing to be apart of this projects, please contacts the SigBio co- chairs. In addition, no previous programming experience will be required, but would be appreciated.

Biological / Computer Internet Links

This is a growing list of good internet sites which are good examples of the power of the WWW to provide information and educate the public. One of the first mass uses for the Internet was for scientists around the world to collaborate on research to avoid too much redundancy and to bypass the reletively long time period required for printed material to be distributed.

Tours of Local Research Laboratories

Along with projects, Sigbio has visited a few labs around campus where computers are being used to aid biological research. These tours are a great way to meet people on the cutting edge of technology and learn about opportunities in the computing and biological fields. Plus, we can usually find some pretty cool toys to play with!