Hello from Providence, RI. 
I am first year MS student working on the isolation and characterization of novel diazotrophs in estuarine sediments. At the moment I am primarily concerned with sequencing and annotation of the genome of one these organisms and work minimally on the culturing/isolation aspect of the project, which I share with a post doc. I'm working with a lot of sequence data and am kind of new to the whole bioinformatics thing since I spent most of my undergrad doing molecular stuff with gene expression. I'm getting better with computers but I still kind of go cross eyed whenever I open up a command line terminal. I'm hoping to find some helpful computer pointers from members of this community.
~A
I am first year MS student working on the isolation and characterization of novel diazotrophs in estuarine sediments. At the moment I am primarily concerned with sequencing and annotation of the genome of one these organisms and work minimally on the culturing/isolation aspect of the project, which I share with a post doc. I'm working with a lot of sequence data and am kind of new to the whole bioinformatics thing since I spent most of my undergrad doing molecular stuff with gene expression. I'm getting better with computers but I still kind of go cross eyed whenever I open up a command line terminal. I'm hoping to find some helpful computer pointers from members of this community. ~A