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The Education area is constantly concerned about exploring and offering new teaching modalities to stimulate students even more towards understanding new content and skills' domain. In an increasingly technologized world, using computational tools such as software or games has become the formal academic curriculum topic since elementary years. Particularly in Biology science, new contents using Bioinformatics tools are growingly important in current scientific production and must be incorporated into the school context. Nevertheless, its use is somehow limited, mainly due to the languages adopted for its dissemination. On the one hand, scientific language relies on many technical terms. On the other, programming languages require minimum knowledge to execute such tools. These kinds of languages are not easily understood by high school students nor school-age youths in general. Therefore, the challenge is establishing mechanisms to allow greater dissemination of bioinformatic tools, narrowing the gap in their understanding. Given the above, this project aims to enable data understanding and the processes in the Biology field by developing a teaching platform designed for high school students. Within this context, we present "OLATCG" (https://olatcg.herokuapp.com), a didactic tool to serve as a base for a teaching strategy in Biology Classes. The platform allows teachers to work with problem-based learning activities applied to different Biology fields: Genetics, Evolution, Taxonomy, and others. This tool has controlled data sets to facilitate teacher's interaction in problem-solving situations, thus instigating classroom discussions. "OLATCG" has been able to perform alignments between genetic sequences and phylogenetic analyses on its first version. All content is presented through user-friendly interfaces and explanations in easy-to-understand everyday language for students. The platform also provides introductory concepts on Bioinformatics and a tutorial snippet on how to use all its resources facilities. We intend the platform to provide not only the expansion of Bioinformatics at the secondary level of education but also the strengthening of a developing network to foster Bioinformatics teaching. This network has several national and international research and educational institutions, such as the "Helmholtz for Environmental Research (UFZ)" Center in the German city of Leipzig, focusing on multidisciplinary environmental research. As a result, OLATCG is expected to encourage the collective construction of content for the popularization, appreciation, and didactics of Bioinformatics related areas.

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1	Luiz Barbosa(Dummy_email@email.com)
2	Anna Mendes(Dummy_email@email.com)
3	Guilherme Matos(Dummy_email@email.com)
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