User talk:Aporras1

Week 2 Feedback

• Thank you for turning in your assignment on time.
• You wrote something in the summary field for 32 of 38 saves (84%) in the period of review, which is very good. Remember we are aiming for 100%
• The number of total saves on your individual wiki page was 18, which is a good amount for this assignment.
• The link from your User page to the Week 2 assignment was missing, as was your category. Please make sure that these are included in your template and that you invoke the template on each journal entry, if you haven't made this change already.
• Your +1, +2, and +3 frame translations were correct.
• However, the -1, -2, and -3 frame translations were incorrect. It appears that you read them 3' to 5' instead of 5' to 3'. You either had to reverse the sequence or read it right to left to translate it correctly.
• Your determination of which frames contained ORFs was correct (but based on your mis-translation of the three minus frames).
• One other note: we do not label the ends of proteins 5' and 3', instead we label them N-ter and C-ter.
• Also, do not put the untranslated nucleotides at the end of the protein sequence. Since some nucleotides and amino acids share one-letter abbreviations, this is confusing.
• Finally, do not flip the orientation of the RNA "top" and "bottom" strands from what is given by the DNA sequence. Even though it is the RNA that is ultimately translated, we always refer to "top" and "bottom" with respect to DNA.
• I did not see an electronic lab notebook for this assignment. For this journal entry, the lab notebook would have explained how you arrived at your answers to the questions posed in the exercise.
• The technical language in articles from the primary literature is definitely a hurdle for students (and even for faculty from a different field), I'm glad you stuck with it. Like with other fields of endeavor, it is good to take a look at the primary source. Instead of just relying on your memory for terminology, you can always look something up online or in a text book or dictionary. I have to do that myself when I am reading something from a different field.

— Kdahlquist (talk) 23:40, 23 September 2017 (PDT)

Week 1 Feedback

Thank you for submitting your work on time. Your Week 1 work has been reviewed, and the following points of improvement have been identified. Other than these items, your wiki skills and deliverables checked out OK:

• I don’t see an email from you regarding worries/concerns or additional information.
• You only went to two levels of depth with your headings; the instructions requested at least three levels.

None of these other items were found in your submission:

• Acknowledgments
• References

For your shared journal response, the following requested items were not seen:

• Link to shared response from user page
• Your answer to the first question after doing the readings. Unfortunately, it did not help that your answers were conflated into paragraph form, rather than a point-by-point Q&A. Implied answers were found to most of the questions, except for the first post-reading question.

Please make sure to check off all of the requested items in future assignments more thoroughly. The instructions asked for all of these to be included in your user page and/or shared journal response. Thank you!

—Dondi (talk) 21:42, 11 September 2017 (PDT)