Download BCB 544 Team Project Planning and Paper Analysis - Prof. Drena Leigh Dobbs and more Study Guides, Projects, Research Bioinformatics in PDF only on Docsity! BCB 444/544 Fall 06 Oct2 544Extra #1 p 1 BCB 444/544 544 Extra #1 (20 pts) Name _________________________________________ Due Mon Oct 9 Noon (Task 1.1) Due Mon Oct 16 Noon (Task 1.2 & Task 2) (please send electronic copy to terrible@iastate.edu or deliver hard copy to MBB 106 before Noon on due date) Objectives: 1. To encourage you to begin planning for Team Semester Projects 2. To give you practice working with a small team to discuss a current research paper & critically evaluate it Task #1: (10 pts total) Begin planning your Team Semester Project 1.1 (5 pts) Get to know potential team members (other BCB 544 students in your class) (this part only is due on or before noon on Mon Oct 9) Type the following information into the Table below, and submit it in 2 ways: 1- Electronically (fill in & send this page as Word.doc attachment) to: terrible@iastate.edu 2- Print & submit hard copy (signed) to: Drena or Michael Name Email address Degree Program (BS, MS, PhD) Department Major Professor (if applicable) "Biological" topics of interest to me: "Computational" or "Statistical" topics of interest to me: Potential Team Project Ideas: Other relevant information (e.g., I made A+ in ComS 311; I own a 100-node cluster; I do microarray research...) ULR for my personal or research webpage Optional, but nice if you have one Photo (AccessPlus is fine) Optional, but helpful! By signing here, I give permission for this information to be shared with other members of my BCB 444/544 class (only) BCB 444/544 Fall 06 Oct2 544Extra #1 p 2 1.2 (5 pts) Begin investigating potential team project topics This assignment will be easier after you have seen the information above for your BCB 544 classmates, right? Michael will collect and combine the above information and distribute it to all of you electronically on Tues, Oct 10 (so please submit the information requested in 1.1 ASAP & no later than Noon on Mon Oct 9) After reading the information submitted by other students, you may see some "natural" overlaps between your interests & those of your classmates. Because there are so few biologists in our class, we may need to "assign" one to each team so that every team will have both "biologists" and "computationalists," (this is negotiable). We imagine teams will have 2 or 3 members (this is also negotiable). FYI: Examples of last year's BCB 544 projects are provided here: http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~cs544/project.htm. Please note that specific requirements for oral presentations & written reports will be slightly different this year (to be posted soon). Keeping in mind the above comments, list 3 BCB 544 students with whom you think you would enjoy working with on Team Project (no need to rank them!) 1. 2. 3. Briefly describe 3 project ideas you are considering (please do RANK THEM in order of your preference) For each, be sure to mention: a) Biological motivation/Question addressed b) Some types of algorithms/software you'd like to develop or learn to use c) Any other relevant information (i.e., Is this project related to work you've done before? Is it almost the same as your project for another class? (this is probably OK with us), Is this topic especially relevant to your own research or potential future research?) Idea #1 Idea #2 Idea #3
