I. Basic Information
A. Your name B. Have you turned in the spreadsheet concerning your availability for group meetings? Yes No If not, then why not do so today?
B. Have you turned in the spreadsheet concerning your availability for group meetings? Yes No If not, then why not do so today?
How far were you able to get in the tour (Part I and Part II)? Do you appreciate the difference between a review article and a research article? Are you comfortable with notions of orf and GC fraction? If not, what's the problem? Are you comfortable with dotplots, such as the one shown in Fig. 2? If not, what's the problem? Are you comfortable constructing families of proteins such as those shown in Fig. 3 (I mean doing it yourself)? If not, what's the problem? Are you comfortable with the meaning and significance of Fig. 4? If not, what's the problem? Any other specific issues on your mind about the article or related matters? Favorite study questions? What's the problem with them?
How far have you gotten in the notes Introduction to mapping, including (of course) EXPLORING the examples? How far have you gotten in the notes Elements of a loop, including (as always) EXPLORING the examples? Do you have a basic idea what mapping does? If not, what's the problem? Do you have a basic idea what looping does? If not, what's the problem? Do you have an idea why mapping and looping might be useful in analyzing an unknown phage genome? If not, what's the problem? Anything specific that's not going as expected?
Put here any miscellaneous comments, questions, suggestions, concerns you may have.
Thanks!