I. Basic Information
A. Your name
How far did you get? Do you understand why it might be valuable to identify regions of DNA that have characteristics different from the rest of the DNA? Do you understand in principle how the methods shown in Box 1 of the article might be used to identify such regions? Do you understand how to read Fig. 1? What is the meaning of the X-axis? ...the Y-axis? Do you understand the meaning of GC-FRACTION and how to calculate it, both using the GC-FRACTION-OF function and using more basic functions? Were you able to generate a graph of GC-fraction vs position in the DNA? Do you understand what it means? Do you understand the trade-off in using bigger or smaller fragment sizes to look for anomolous GC-content? Any particular study questions worthy of discussion?
What analytical capabilities (e.g. BioBIKE functions) do you now think you will need in order to succeed in the goals you've set for your research project this semester? Do you think it would it help for any of them to be discussed in lab or class? Anything other topic you think would help you if we covered it in class or lab? Are you gaining a clearer idea of what you need to do to finish both your research project and annotation of your phage genes?
IV. Miscellaneous
Put here any other miscellaneous comments, questions, suggestions, concerns you may have.
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