Modules:

• Gene Expression

  DNA Extraction

  Backbone vector synthesis

  Cloning

  Bacteria (E. coli)

  transformation

  centrifuge to collect protein

  dye === medium if applicable

  run gels (to teach size separation principals); gel acts like map in game.

  Use extractor to get proper protein from gel? Or maybe just something like HPLC

• Protein and Membrane Biophysics

• General Lab Equipment, Setup, Protocols (keep it easy, but make it somewhat realistic - ie collecting samples, centrifugation, adding and measuring appropriate fluorescent markers. All data should be clean too, not “raw” data but something that is immediately useful. Perhaps a later development could export raw data to ComputerCraft for them to mess with, but that’s a completely different story.)

Future Expansions:

It may be beneficial to make our stuff work with these common mods. ComputerCraft lets you program in Minecraft, someone even made a version that lets you do Python. Thus it is a cool system to teach programming. Our system would teach whatever we want to do with biochemistry / biophysics.

• ComputerCraft

• IndustrialCraft2

• MineChem / Advanced Chemistry

A couple other related mods are BioCraft and Advanced Genetics, but neither teach stuff in a useful way.