MiRPathDB Week 5

As homework partner, Quinn Lanners and John Lopez worked together to analyze the [1] database by following the template laid out on the week 5 assignment page.

To start this weeks assignment, we selected a database from one of the ones on the Nucleic Acids Research Database Issue Table of Contents 2017. After we had selected a database, and it was approved by Dr. Dahlquist, we began work on the assignment.

To make better use of our time, we decided on Thursday to break up the questions between ourselves. Then we could work separately on our own time to find the answers before coming together to put all of the information into a PowerPoint presentation. We decided that John would handle the questions "General Utility" questions of the database, while Quinn would handle the "Scientific Quality" questions of the database. As for the "General Information", which we figured would be easier to determine, we decided to answer those questions each individually as we looked into our specific part. Since the database research was broken up in this manner, the following section of the electronic journal is comprised of two separate accounts from each of us about how we retrieved the answers to our assigned questions.

• Scientific Quality:

• General Utility:

After we had both individually researched the answers to our questions, we met