User talk:Msymond1

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.

• There is an issue with your Excel spreadsheet. Look at the MasterIndex (Column A) in your ANOVA worksheet. The genes are no longer in numerical order by this index. I'm not sure how this happened, but when you pasted the B-H p values back into this sheet, they are not lining up properly by the index. This is why NSR1 is "significant" for the Bonferroni-corrected p value, but not the B-H. Since B-H is less stringent of a correction, this should not happen and should be a flag to check your work. You will need to fix your spreadsheet before you can move on to the next procedure.
• Your electronic notebook is too sparse to be useful. Your notebook should document all of the procedures you carried out to analyze your data so that someone looking at your notebook and beginning with your input data can produce the output you made. What you need to do is copy in the procedure from the Week 9 assignment, and then edit it so that it corresponds to what you did. This includes changing the tense to past tense, removing extraneous items, and stating the column headings and formulas that you used exactly. Then in the acknowledgments section, you need to explicitly state that this is how you created your notebook, by copying and modifying.

— Kdahlquist (talk) 11:16, 21 March 2024 (PDT)

Week 4 Feedback

• Thank you for submitting your work on time! You invoked your template late, but I appreciate that you went back and added it.
• All of the requested content was provided on your NeMO Week4 page, except for the following:
  • When practicing your wiki skills, make sure that you check the page layout after you save it to check for any inconsistencies in formatting. You have some "stray" bullet points that occurred because you used "**" without having a line with "*" first.
  • Make sure to invoke your template on every individual journal entry, including those you make with partners!
  • Make sure to sign your class journal entry with your wiki signature ~~~~.
• I am interested to hear that you've got your own set of techniques for navigating biological databases and extracting the information you need. Do you have any tips or tricks that we can share with the class?

— Kdahlquist (talk) 15:16, 18 March 2024 (PDT)

Week 3 Feedback

• Thank you for submitting your shared MSN1 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.
• You have written something in the summary field for 52/55 edits (95%)--Keep up the good work!
• You have all of the requested content on your page except for the following:
  • The images of the DNA sequence, reading frames, and 3D structure are a little small to be easily viewed. While the original image might have been too big, sizing it so that it can be read easily is important. It would have been helpful to provide an in-text citation for where you got those images.
• It's a little hard to explain what happens when making code more efficient, it doesn't necessarily mean cutting code. There is an analogy with the NeMO Database that we saw. We saw that it was taking a long time for the website to load because it was querying the database each time someone clicked on the website. It would be much more efficient from the user point of view for it to do the common queries in advance and then save them so that when a user ran that query it could just display the saved answer instead of querying the database again.
• At the most basic level, all information is encoded in a computer by 0's and 1'. Those 0's and 1's are literally no current (0) or current (1) in a particular transistor on the chip. There are "low-level" programs that just strings of 0's and 1's telling the computer what to do, called machine language. All programming languages that we typically see need to be converted into machine language in order for a computer to run.

— Kdahlquist (talk) 12:53, 13 February 2024 (PST)

Week 2 Feedback

• Thank you for submitting your work on time! I see that you added additional references to you individual journal entry late, but the main part of your assignment was on time.
• All of the requested navigation links were present and you invoked your template on your individual journal page. Note that the formatting for one of the headers is not appearing properly because in your syntax you used a * next to the template.
• During the period of review, you made 49 edits to the wiki and wrote something in the summary field 86% of the time. This is very good--remember we are aiming for 100%.
• All of the requested tasks were completed appropriately, except for the following:
  • Electronic Lab Notebook
    • Your purpose is a little too general. You should have said that the goal was to modify the DNA sequence to make a purple gene/protein.
    • Your methods give a general idea of what you did, but it could have provided more detail. Instead of having a paragraph for the methods, then the answers to the tasks, you could have written the methods for task 1 and then the results for task 1. Then the methods for task 2 and the results for task 2.
    • You needed to cite the instruction manual, state that you followed it, and list it in your references section.
    • You documented your results well with the figures.
    • Your conclusion is good. Ideally it should mirror your purpose, and would have if you had mentioned making the purple gene/protein in your purpose.
• Wiki skills: remember that the format for an external link is different to an internal link. Your link to the site where you learned about wikitext has extra [ ] that are not needed.
• Class journal entry: be sure to sign your class journal entry with your wiki signature. That will also provide the requested hyperlink to your user page.
• "Cell free synthesis" refers to an experiment where all the components needed for translation are in a test tube. For example, mRNA, tRNAs charged with their appropriate amino acids, ribosomes, translation factors. Being able to recapitulate a biological process like translation in a test tube is a way to determine which components are essential to the reaction, and which are optional. You can then also control all the variables in the system, including, in this case, the specific sequence of the mRNAs.

— Kdahlquist (talk) 16:13, 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 include a statement about your future career interests.
  • It looks like your research experience and work experience could be combined in one section. This might make it flow better.
  • You wrote something in the summary field 50/61 times (85%) during the period of review. This is pretty good, but remember we are aiming for 100% of the time.
  • The three levels of headings are there on your page, but they appear awkward down at the bottom of the page. Notice how the automatically-generated table of contents appears low on the page because of this. Think about how you can effectively use the headers to organize your page.
  • I did not see where you had commented out a message, <!--example of a comment-->.
  • You created and invoked your template, but the content of your template page could be organized a little better into a list or table. Remember, you are going to add new link to your template as you go this semester and that change will then automatically occur on each page on which you invoked your template.
  • Your Acknowledgments and References section should appear on your individual journal entry (for Week 1, your user page), not the class journal page. Make sure that you include this statement with your wiki signature:
    • "Except for what is noted above, this individual journal entry was completed by me and not copied from another source."
  • Make sure that you sign your class journal entry with your wiki signature as well.
• I'm glad the Janovy reading inspired you to think of yourself as a biologist!

— Kdahlquist (talk) 13:24, 25 January 2024 (PST)