Jnimmers Week 4

LinkedIn Learning Tutorial for MS Access

LMU provides free accounts to LinkedIn Learning (formerly Lynda.com). You will take advantage of this resource by using the tutorial for learning Microsoft Access, the database software we will use in this class.

• This page explains how to access LinkedIn Learning using your LMU credentials.
• Complete the tutorial called "Learning Access 2016" by Adam Wilbert (Released on May 4, 2016). It is 1 hour and 6 minutes long. Be sure that you are selecting the right tutorial because there are several for MS Access.
• When you are finished, download the certificate of completion, upload it to this wiki and link to it on your individual journal page. Be sure to change the filename so that it is specific to you (e.g., add your last name or username to the filename) because there will be 14 of you uploading similar files.

Preliminary Tasks

Turning on File Extensions in Windows 10

• The Windows 10 operating systems defaults to hiding file extensions. To turn them back on, do the following:
  
  1. Go to the Search menu (circle icon) "File Explorer Options" in the search field. Select the result.
  2. When the File Explorer Options window appears, click on the View tab.
  3. Uncheck the box for "Hide extensions for known file types".
  4. Click the OK button.
• The computers in Seaver 120 are are set to erase all custom user settings and restore the defaults once they have been restarted, so if you have done this previously, you might have to do it again.

Setting the Download Options for FireFox and Chrome

• For Mozilla FireFox (40.0.2 or higher)
  • Options set to default downloads to Desktop and to ask each time a file is downloaded
    • Go to the Options menu, General options
    • First, under the "Downloads" section, next to "Save files to" click the "Browse" button, select the T: drive, and click the OK button.
    • Second, click the radio button next to "Always ask me where to save files"
• For Google Chrome (Version 44.0.2403.157 m or higher)
  • Options set to default downloads to Desktop and to ask each time a file is downloaded
    • Go to Settings page, click on link to "Show advanced settings"
    • First, under the "Downloads" section, click the "Change..." button, select the T: drive, and click the OK button.
    • Second, check the box next to "Ask where to save each file before downloading"

Note that for the computers in Seaver 120, anything saved to the Desktop, My Documents, Downloads, or any other folder will be deleted when the computers are restarted. To make sure that your work will still be available to you, save your files to the T: drive. ("T" stands for the "thawspace" of the Deep Freeze software that manages the deletions.)

Compressing and Decompressing Files with 7-Zip

• The 7-Zip file compression software has been installed on the computers in Seaver 120. (If you want to install this software on your own computer, go to the 7-zip Download page.) To compress a single file or a group of files, do the following:
  1. Select all of the files you want to zip together by clicking and dragging or control-clicking on the filenames.
  2. Right-click on your selection. In the context menu that appears, select the menu option: 7-Zip > Add to archive
  3. Make sure there is a meaningful filename in the field under the word "Archive:". If not, change it to something that is. Typically you will want to include your name or initials, a short descriptor of what the file contains, and the date in year-month-day format (yyyy-mm-dd).
  4. Select "zip" as the Archive format.
  5. You do not need to change any of the other defaults. Click OK. The zip file will appear in the same folder as the files you compressed.
• To decompress files with 7-zip, right click on the file icon. From the context menu that appears, select 7-zip > Extract Here.
  • Note that Windows Explorer will allow you to view the contents of a zipped archive without actually decompressing them. It may even seem like you can open them or otherwise manipulate them. However, issues will arise from doing this, most commonly, not being able to save your changes. Always make sure that you decompress (unzip) the files before using them.

The FDA Drug Database

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) provides, as a matter of public record, the full data set for its approved drugs at this website: http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/InformationOnDrugs/ucm079750.htm

The site includes both a link to the downloadable files (compressed in .zip format) and the schema (“entity relationship diagram”) for those files.

Using these files, what you have learned in the LinkedIn Learning tutorial, and additional information found in this wiki and on the aforementioned FDA website, do the following:

1. Download and decompress the files.
2. Import the data files into a Microsoft Access database you will create.
3. Configure the fields in your tables to match the schema provided by the FDA (keys, datatypes).
4. Set the relationships between your tables to match the schema provided by the FDA.
5. Answer the questions below.

Electronic Lab Notebook and Questions to Answer

Complete your electronic notebook on your individual journal page. Your notebook entry should contain:

• The purpose: what was the purpose of your investigations?
• Your methods: what did you actually do? Give a step by step account for Tasks 1-4 listed above.
  • There should be enough detail provided so that you or another person could re-do it based solely on your notebook.
  • You may copy protocol instructions on your page and modify them as to what you actually did, as long as you provide appropriate attribution.
  • Take advantage of the electronic nature of the notebook by providing screenshots, links to web pages, links to data, etc.
• Your results: the answers to the questions below, plus any other results you gathered.
  • Usually it makes sense to embed your answers to the questions/results in the "methods" in the order in which you obtained them.
• A scientific conclusion: what was your main finding for today's project? Did you fulfill the purpose? Why or why not?

For the questions below, supply (a) the answer to the question and (b) the query that you used to answer the question.

1. What are the names of the drug products that are administered in the form INJECTABLE;INTRAVENOUS, SUBCUTANEOUS?
2. What are the names of the drug products whose active ingredient (activeingred) is ATROPINE?
3. In what forms and dosages can the drug product named BENADRYL be administered?
4. Which drug products have a name ending in ESTROL?
5. Produce a table listing all of the known values for the therapeutic_potential column in the application table and how many application records there are of each. (Side note: The therapeutic_potential codes are explained in the ReviewClass_Lookup.txt file, in case you’re interested.)
6. Produce a table listing all of the known values for the chemical_type column in the application table and how many application records there are of each. (Side note: The chemical_type codes are explained in the ChemTypeLookup.txt file, in case you’re interested.)
7. What are the names of the drug products that are sponsored (sponsor applicant column) by MERCK?
8. Which sponsor applicant companies have the text LABS in their names and have products whose active ingredients (activeingred) include both ASPIRIN and CAFFEINE?
9. Also answer, would you have been able to answer these questions using the web interface that the FDA provides to this database (Drugs@FDA?)

Data and Files

• References to data and files should be made within the methods and results section of your notebook.
• In addition to these inline links, create a "Data and Files" section of your notebook to make a list of the files generated in this exercise. In particular, you will need to zip and upload a compressed version of your MS Access FDA drug database. Make sure that your filename contains your last name or username to distinguish it from databases created by other students in the class.

Acknowledgments

In this section, you need to acknowledge anyone who assisted you with your assignment, either in person, electronically, or even anonymously without their knowledge.

1. You must acknowledge your homework partner or team members with whom you worked, giving details of the nature of the collaboration. You should include when and how you met and what content you worked on together. An appropriate statement could be (but is not limited to) the following:
   • I worked with my homework partner (give name and link name to their user page) in class. We met face-to-face one time outside of class. We texted/e-mailed/chatted online three times. We worked on the <details> portion of the assignment together.
2. Acknowledge anyone else you worked with who was not your assigned partner. This could be Dr. Dahlquist (for example, via office hours), the TA, other students in the class, or even other students or faculty outside of the class.
3. If you copied wiki syntax or a particular style from another wiki page, acknowledge that here. Provide the user name of the original page, if possible, and provide a link to the page from which you copied the syntax or style.
4. If you need to reference content (such as the methods of a protocol), that belongs in the References section where you will give a include a formal APA-formatted citation (see below).
5. You must also include this statement unless otherwise noted:
   • "Except for what is noted above, this individual journal entry was completed by me and not copied from another source."
6. Sign your Acknowledgments section with your wiki signature.

References

• In this section, you need to provide properly formatted citations to any content that was not entirely of your own devising. This includes, but is not limited to:
  • methods
  • data
  • facts
  • images
  • documents, including the scientific literature
• Do not include extraneous references that you do not cite or use on your page.
• The references in this section should be accompanied by in text citations on your page that refer to these references.
• The references should be formatted according to the APA guidelines.
• For more detailed guidelines, please see the document Guidelines for Literature Citations in a Scientific Paper that you were given on the first day of class.
• Cite the appropriate weekly Assignment page. For example, the citation for the Week 1 Assignment page is: LMU BioDB 2019. (2019). Week 1. Retrieved August 27, 2019, from https://xmlpipedb.cs.lmu.edu/biodb/fall2019/index.php/Week_1
• Even if you have nothing else to cite, the References section must be present and include the citation to the appropriate weekly assignment page.