Need Analysis of Plant Metabolism Learning Module Assisted by In-silico Bioinformatics

Abstract

In-silico bioinformatics is a technique to support the biological research and learning using technological approach. Bioinformatics is starting to be widely used in molecular biology research, genetics, taxonomy, microbiology, biotechnology, physiology, and biology education. Bioinformatics approach based on searching biological databases which contain various molecular data information used in biological research and learning. This research aims to observe the needs of lecturers and students regarding the teaching materials for plant metabolism courses based on bioinformatics. The respondents involved were two lecturers and fifty-eight students have enrolled in the course on plant metabolism in even semester. Instruments used to assess the lecturers and students are questionnaires that distributed directly and using Google Form. The research findings showed that all lecturer and student respondents agreed that teaching materials would be prepared and developed in the form of module to improve students' content-knowledge, understanding, and skill competences in studying plant metabolism assisted by in-silico. The teaching module developed is consists of plant metabolism basic concepts, biosynthetic of phytochemical compounds, and analysis techniques by in-silico bioinformatics.