Week 11

This journal entry is due on Tuesday, November 17, at midnight PST. (Monday night/Tuesday morning)

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Overview

For this week, your team has two main tasks:

Prepare for journal club presentations in Weeks 12 and 13
- You will deeply explore and perform a critical review of the genome paper (coder/QA) and microarray paper (GenMAPP users) for your team's species.
- You will communicate your findings in an effective oral presentation.
Begin initial tasks on your research project
- Coder/QA
  - Set up coding/testing environment
  - Determine the regular expression for the ordered locus ID for your species
  - Identify the appropriate model organism database for your species.
  - Perform an initial Gene Database export and Gene Database Testing Report
- GenMAPP Users
  - Describe the experimental design of the microarray data, including treatments, number of replicates (biological and/or technical), dye swaps.
  - Determine the sample and data relationships, i.e., which files in the data correspond to which samples in the experimental design.
  - Compile the raw data in preparation for normalization and statistical analysis.

Store this journal entry as "username Week 11" (i.e., this is the text to place between the square brackets when you link to this page).
Link from your user page to this Assignment page.
Link to your journal entry from your user page.
Link back from your journal entry to your user page.
Don't forget to add the "Journal Entry" category to the end of your wiki page.
- Note: you can easily fulfill all of these links by adding them to your template and then using your template on your journal entry.
For your assignment this week, you will keep an electronic laboratory notebook on your individual journal entry page for this week. An electronic laboratory notebook records all the manipulations you perform on the data and the answers to the questions throughout the protocol. Like a paper lab notebook found in a wet lab, it should contain enough information so that you or someone else could reproduce what you did using only the information from the notebook.

Store your journal entry in the shared Class Journal Week 11 page. If this page does not exist yet, go ahead and create it (congratulations on getting in first :) )
Link to your journal entry from your user page.
Link back from the journal entry to your user page.
- NOTE: you can easily fulfill the links part of these instructions by adding them to your template and using the template on your user page.
Sign your portion of the journal with the standard wiki signature shortcut (~~~~).
Add the "Journal Entry" and "Shared" categories to the end of the wiki page (if someone has not already done so).