The bioinformatics education platform named for Rosalind Franklin in 2012 was Rosalind.
Rosalind is an online resource that teaches bioinformatics through problem solving and programming. Rather than presenting only lectures or reference material, it gives learners a sequence of computational biology challenges. Submissions are checked automatically, allowing students to practise algorithms and receive immediate confirmation of whether their solutions work.
The project launched on 25 July 2012 as a collaboration involving the University of California, San Diego, and Saint Petersburg Academic University with the Russian Academy of Sciences. Its name honors Franklin, whose X-ray crystallography with Raymond Gosling produced crucial evidence about DNA’s structure.
The platform is not the same as Biopython, a software library for biological computation; Cytoscape, a network-visualization platform; or Galaxy, a broader web-based environment for data analysis. Rosalind has also been used in formal teaching, including the Bioinformatics Algorithms course associated with Coursera in 2013. Its central idea is learning by solving increasingly demanding biological and algorithmic problems.