Hey @all,
first post here (hope that I can find the time to give some answers in other threads), and I come with a problem, which doesn't really fit anyhwere.
My problem is that I need to find some tools, which a) can be used by people who can't program and b) make a project out of this, which will keep someone busy for 6 weeks.
Why that? My university has a course, in which some of the bio* classes are merged. There might be some bioinformaticians in there, but most likely not.
The content of the course is...to work with a PhD student for the time of the course (6 weeks) on a specific problem, to get an insight into the field.
The students get assigned to the different projects, which the participating departments submitted. If someone doesn't get the project he/she wanted to, then he/she is randomly distributed.
That's in general not a bad idea.
Besides that in this case it is.
We're a systemsbiology department, our professor participates in that "course", so me and another PhD student now have to make up a project for 4 people, who most likely now Facebook and Google, and nothing else.
Last year we put them in front of PathwayTools, and let them curate some genomes.
That sort of works, but well...not great, and it's not fun, doesn't keep someone efficiently busy for 6 weeks, and we shouldn't do that again.
So I wonder if someone here might have some idea, what would be an efficient and interesting task for someone to do 6 weeks long (interesting = not counting the GC content of a genome by hand, or similar suggestions ^^).
We have different (meta)*omics datasets, but for my life, I don't know what I could let them do with it, given that they don't have any abilities to mass process them.
I still have 2.5 weeks time to think about something, but I'm a bit stuck.
The students probably have to waste one week to get into Linux, and 2 weeks of PathwayTools should again be possible, but I'd like to have something else before, or after that.
Obvious choice would be a genome assembly to get it into PathwayTools, but I think that directly fails again at the missing computer skills.
So...if anyone has an idea...it would be highly appreciated .
first post here (hope that I can find the time to give some answers in other threads), and I come with a problem, which doesn't really fit anyhwere.
My problem is that I need to find some tools, which a) can be used by people who can't program and b) make a project out of this, which will keep someone busy for 6 weeks.
Why that? My university has a course, in which some of the bio* classes are merged. There might be some bioinformaticians in there, but most likely not.
The content of the course is...to work with a PhD student for the time of the course (6 weeks) on a specific problem, to get an insight into the field.
The students get assigned to the different projects, which the participating departments submitted. If someone doesn't get the project he/she wanted to, then he/she is randomly distributed.
That's in general not a bad idea.
Besides that in this case it is.
We're a systemsbiology department, our professor participates in that "course", so me and another PhD student now have to make up a project for 4 people, who most likely now Facebook and Google, and nothing else.
Last year we put them in front of PathwayTools, and let them curate some genomes.
That sort of works, but well...not great, and it's not fun, doesn't keep someone efficiently busy for 6 weeks, and we shouldn't do that again.
So I wonder if someone here might have some idea, what would be an efficient and interesting task for someone to do 6 weeks long (interesting = not counting the GC content of a genome by hand, or similar suggestions ^^).
We have different (meta)*omics datasets, but for my life, I don't know what I could let them do with it, given that they don't have any abilities to mass process them.
I still have 2.5 weeks time to think about something, but I'm a bit stuck.
The students probably have to waste one week to get into Linux, and 2 weeks of PathwayTools should again be possible, but I'd like to have something else before, or after that.
Obvious choice would be a genome assembly to get it into PathwayTools, but I think that directly fails again at the missing computer skills.
So...if anyone has an idea...it would be highly appreciated .
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