Virtual Biochemistry - An Interactive 3D Laboratory Course Using Java

生物科学（61）虚拟生物化学实验室是一个综合性的，完全互动的，三维的生物化学实验课程（光盘），为大学本科生。该虚拟实验室为学生提供了进行虚拟实验的机会，从而使学生掌握了实验室技术和程序，使他们能够在实际实验室中进行相同或类似的实验。第二个好处包括在处理危险和/或昂贵试剂方面的预防培训。然而，不仅如此，虚拟实验室还提供了一个“零件仓库”，学生可以在其中独立工作，探索有关生物系统的基本问题，并通过他们设计和进行的实验寻求这些问题的答案。虚拟生物化学实验室使用Java编程语言，包括Java 3D和JavaBeans，并基于软件设计的组件模型。虚拟实验室的设计为学生用户提供了完全独立的实验计划和执行以及结果数据的分析。该软件是足够的通用，它可以适用于任何典型的生物化学实验室实验。这种普遍性和灵活性允许学生提出关于生物系统的基本问题，定义阐述基本问题的辅助问题，然后使用虚拟实验室中的“零件仓库”来设计将为这些问题提供答案的实验。通过这种方式，在教师的指导下，并通过与同龄人的合作，学生学会解决问题，不仅通过科学方法的应用，而且通过自我反思，试错的过程，以及知识体系的构建，这些知识体系在学生将实践与理论联系起来时出现，同时在虚拟实验的过程中整合讲座，实验室和阅读。

Biological Sciences (61) The Virtual Biochemistry Laboratory is a comprehensive, fullyinteractive, three-dimensional laboratory course (on CD-ROM) in biological chemistry for college undergraduate students. This virtual laboratory provides the opportunity for students to conduct virtual experiments, thus it acquaints students with laboratory techniques and procedures enabling them to perform the same or similar experiments in an actual laboratory. Secondary benefits include precautionary training in the handling of dangerous and/or expensive reagents. More than this, however, the virtual laboratory offers a "warehouse of parts" within which students can work independently to explore essential questions about biological systems and seek answers to these questions by means of experiments they design and conduct. The Virtual Biochemistry Laboratory uses the programming language Java, including Java 3D and JavaBeans and is based on the component model of software design. The design of the Virtual Laboratory provides total independence to the student user for the planning and execution of experiments and the analysis of the resulting data. The software is sufficiently general that it can be adaptable to any typical biochemistry laboratory experiment. This generality and flexibility permits students to ask essential questions about biological systems, to define subsidiary questions that elaborate on the essential questions, and then to use the "warehouse of parts" in the virtual laboratory to design experiments that will provide answers to those questions. In this way, under guidance from the instructor and via collaboration with peers, students learn to problem-solve, not only via the application of the scientific method, but also via the processes of self-reflection, trial and error, and the construction of a body of knowledge that emerges as students link practice and theory while integrating lectures, labs and readings in the process of doing virtual experiments.