User talk:Asandle1

This my discussion page Asandle1 (talk) 19:47, 17 January 2024 (PST)

Some Quick Week 9 Feedback

Here is some interim feedback on your Week 9 assignment so you will be ready to move forward with Week 10.

• The Benjamini & Hochberg correction needs to be performed on the unadjusted p values, not the p values that were already Bonferroni-corrected. Essentially you did a correction on a correction and that's why your numbers for p values are so low.
• Your electronic notebook does a good job of providing a narrative of what you did an when. However, you should include the specific Excel equations that you used for each calculation. That way, somebody reading your notebook knows exactly what you did and can repeat your calculations based on the information you provided.
• Even though we are still in the process of working with this dataset, what conclusions can you draw from what we have done so far?

— Kdahlquist (talk) 10:38, 21 March 2024 (PDT)

Week 4 Feedback

• Thank you for submitting your work on time! I do note, however, that the acknowledgments and references sections were added 27 minutes after the deadline and the wiki signatures were added hours later in class. Make sure you budget enough time for the assignment so that you are not bumping up against the deadline.
• All of the requested content was provided on your Monarch Initiative Week 4. I appreciated the depth to which you explained your answers and that you provided specific URLs for each item.
• However, you were not able to find information on species, where else could you have looked?
• It was also a little unclear what questions the database could be used to answer.
• In terms of your wiki skills, make sure that you proofread your page after you have made your edits to fix any formatting artifacts that have arisen.
  • For example, there are stray bullet points and a numbered list is all 1's.
    • When making a bulleted list, you need to have the * level before you do the ** level and you can't skip lines.
    • When making a numbered list, you can't skip lines or it will just start over at "1" each time.
    • On your shared journal, use # to make a numbered list, so that it shows with the correct indents.
• For your Acknowledgments section, please have each partner put in this exact phrase, followed by their signature:
  • "Except for what is noted above, this individual journal entry was completed by me and not copied from another source." You have something like it, but I'm looking for that exact phrase from each partner.
• For your References section, technically you would need a separate citation for each website you visited, not just the main domain. Please note that for the future.
  • For your reference to the Monarch Initiative website, it needs a date accessed.
    • Monarch Initiative. Monarch Initiative. (2024). Monarch Initiative. Retrieved <insert date> from https://monarchinitiative.org/
  • For your reference to the paper about the database, you need to cite it as a journal article, not a website. The journal is Nucleic Acids Research, not OUP Academic
    • Putman, T. E., Schaper, K., Matentzoglu, N., Rubinetti, V. P., Alquaddoomi, F. S., Cox, C., ... & Munoz-Torres, M. C. (2024). The Monarch Initiative in 2024: an analytic platform integrating phenotypes, genes and diseases across species. 'Nucleic acids research, 52(D1), D938-D949. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkad1082
• Your skills with managing your photo files are directly transferable to other types of data, and actually lead into data management and organization. We'll talk more about that as the semester progresses.

— Kdahlquist (talk) 15:18, 18 March 2024 (PDT)

Week 3 Feedback

• Thank you for submitting your shared SIR2 journal page on time!
• Be sure to invoke your template on each individual journal entry, even those that you are doing with a partner. Because the template did not get invoked, you were missing the category for "journal entry" at the bottom of the page.
• It looks like you have not used your template page in the way it was intended. Your template page is Template:Asandle1. All of the correct content in on this page: your list of assignments, individual journal entries, class journal entries, the link to your user page, and the category "Journal Entry". However you need to invoke your template on each of your individual journal entries, including your user page and this week's shared gene page wiki by using the following syntax: {{Asandle1}}. All of the stuff that you put on your Template:Asandle1 page will then appear whereever you invoked the code with the curley braces. That way, you only need to edit your template page and all the changes you make will automatically appear wherever you invoked your template. Invoke your template at the very bottom of whatever wiki page you are editing.
• You have written something in the summary field for 101/102 edits (99%) which is an incredible amount of edits and summary field rate. Keep up the good work.
• You have all of the requested content on your page except for the following:
  • Note that the idea behind your gene summary on your own gene page was to summarize and paraphrase the content that you read about from the source databases. The idea was to synthesize that content into your own words.
  • Something odd happened when you translated your gene's DNA sequence using the ExPASy tool. Using the DNA sequence you provided, the correct amino acid sequence should have shown up in all red in the first frame. Did you paste extra sequences by mistake into the tool?
  • Your explanation of the similarities and differences between the databases could have been expanded.
• Wiki skills
  • Be sure to use bulleted and numbered lists to organize your content.
  • You could have formatted your gene IDs as hyperlinks to each of the databases instead of providing a separate list of hyperlinks. Think about how you can use the wiki syntax to your advantage to format the page.
• Acknowledgments and References
  • Acknowledgments and References need to be two different sections, with two different headers, not combined together.
  • The Acknowledgments section is where you acknowledge the partners you worked with and the websites you used for style and syntax.
  • The Reference section should just have the list of references that were used to create the content for your page. This is like the references section of a paper where you need to list all of the citations you used in alphabetical order. You need to provide full APA-formatted citations. For a website, it is not just the website, but the authors, date, name of the site, URL, and date accessed.
• I'm glad you like the Paul Ford article! He writes a monthly column for the magazine Wired that you might also like.
• I'm also interested in knowing which of the databases you liked least.

— Kdahlquist (talk) 12:50, 13 February 2024 (PST)

Week 2 Feedback

• Thank you for submitting your work on time! I see that you had to fix your references after the accidental deletion, but you are not being penalized for that.
  • In the future, it might be helpful for you to make a list of items you need to complete for your journal page so that you can check them off.
• All of the requested navigation links were present and you invoked your template on your individual journal page.
• During the period of review, you made 68 edits to the wiki and wrote something in the summary field 95% of the time. Excellent--keep up the good work!
• All of the requested tasks were completed appropriately, except for the following:
  • Electronic Lab Notebook
    • The purpose that you stated is a _learning_ purpose, not the _scientific_ purpose of the exercise. You stated what you would learn as a person by doing the exercise instead of what scientific question it would answer. Besides learning the inheritance pattern of all the colors, the purpose of this assignment was to make a purple flower and to be able to explain why it is a purple flower.
    • Your methods section does not contain enough information for someone else to reproduce what you did. You needed to explicitly cite/hyperlink the instruction manual. The document attached does contain a record of your crosses, but it's a little difficult to follow. For example, for each cross you could have explicitly said "I crossed parent 1 and parent 2 because of this reason, and I got these results (colors and proportions of offspring). I interpreted these results to mean..., which led me to the next cross, etc. You have something like that in your notes, but it's very brief.
    • Your conclusion should then answer the specific question you posed in the purpose. The purpose was to make a purple flower and to explain why it was purple. So, you could have said that you obtained a purple flower by crossing true-breeding red and blue flowers. You attempted to make a true-breeding purple flower by mutation, but were unsuccessful.
  • Specific tasks
    • You needed to provide answers to (a) - (f) on pages I-9 and I-10, which included listing the alleles, genotypes, and phenotypes for all the colors, as well as stating the genotypes of the starting strains. You needed to explain why your purple flower was purple. You did reference the mutation part of the procedure.
  • Your Acknowledgments and References sections were completed properly.
    • In the future, just put all the Acknowledgments and References on your individual page, not the class journal page, even for the readings that were covered in the class journal. Please at least provide a link to the Khan Academy videos you watched (or the home page).
  • Make sure you continue to practice your wiki skills. For example, you could have provided a prettier label for the link to your document. Instead of doing [[Media:Steps_in_Making_a_Purple_Flower_Lab_notebook.pdf]], you could have put a label on it like this [[Media:Steps_in_Making_a_Purple_Flower_Lab_notebook.pdf | Purple Flower Lab Notebook]]
• Your comparison of a computer code and DNA code was very thoughtful. There is a field called synthetic biology where scientists are essentially constructing electronic-like circuits out of DNA, such as "AND" and "OR" gates, etc.

— Kdahlquist (talk) 15:38, 6 February 2024 (PST)

Week 1 Feedback

• Thank you for submitting your assignment on time!
• All of the tasks from the assignment were complete, except for the following which were incomplete or could show some improvement. You will be able to earn back points that you lost by making these corrections by the deadline for the Week 3 assignment.
  • Please add a snail mail address. You can use the departmental address for your department in the business school.(Complete)
  • The way you describe your work experience is a little vague. Think about how you would represent this on a resume or LinkedIn profile.
  • You wrote something in the summary field for 63/71 edits (89%) in the period of review which is very good. Remember, we are aiming for 100%.
  • There is code showing for "File:Wiki.png" at the top right of your page. I'm not sure if this was supposed to be a picture or was just a test, but it should be removed to make your page look more professional.
  • You have provided links to web pages outside of the wiki in your references section. However, there are extra " [ ] " symbols appearing next to your links. Remember, links interior to the wiki use double square brackets and external links use single square brackets. Please fix your syntax to reflect this.
  • You have used several levels of sections, but they skip around a bit on your page. They should be nested so that "==" is used first, "===" is below that and "====" is below that. Going further to "=====" or "======" is not necessary for your page. See if you can organize it to just use those first three levels.
  • Please include a numbered list, not just a bullet point list.
  • You uploaded and linked to a file, but please fix the syntax so that the link gets a nicer looking label. Instead of [[Media: Andrew_Sandler_Evil_Essay_Final_Draft.pdf]] do something like this [[Media: Andrew_Sandler_Evil_Essay_Final_Draft.pdf | My essay]].
  • You created a template, but did not invoke it on your user page. Use the {{ }} to invoke your template on your page.
  • Make sure that you Acknowledgments and References section for Week 1 goes on your user page. In the future these sections will go on the individual journal entry pages.
  • Don't forget to sign your class journal entry with your wiki signature.
  • Looking ahead, your Week 2 shared reflection should be on the Class Journal Week 2, so you should delete it from your user page.
• I'm so glad to hear that the Janovy reading was a favorite for you!

— Kdahlquist (talk) 15:51, 25 January 2024 (PST)