Week 3
From LMU BioDB 2017
This journal entry is due on Tuesday, September 19, at 12:01 AM PDT.
Overview
The purpose of this assignment is:
- To give you some hands-on practice time with a command-line interface.
- To show you an example of how a manual task can be automated.
- To reinforce the material from the previous week.
These readings/resources will be of direct help in completing the assignment:
- Where's my Stuff?
- Introduction to the Command Line
- http://explainshell.com/ —lets you type in a command and will display a visual explanation of what it does (to the best of its ability)
Individual Journal Assignment
- Store this journal entry as "username Week 3" (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 wiki page. 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.
Homework Partners
For most weeks in the semester, you will be assigned a "homework partner" from a complementary discipline. You will be expected to consult with your partner, sharing your domain expertise, in order to complete the assignment. However, unless otherwise stated, each partner must submit his or her own work as the individual journal entry (direct copies of each other's work is not allowed). You must give the details of the interaction with your partner in the Acknowledgments section of your journal assignment. Homework partners for this week are:
