BIOL368/F16:Class Journal Week 15

Matthew Allegretti

• What is the most important thing that you learned this semester in this class?
  • With your head (biological or bioinformatics principles)
  • With your heart (personal qualities and teamwork qualities that make things work or not work)?
  • With your hands (technical skills)?
• What will you take away from this class that you will still use a year from now?

Matthew K. Oki

• What is the most important thing that you learned this semester in this class?
  • With your head (biological or bioinformatics principles)
  • With your heart (personal qualities and teamwork qualities that make things work or not work)?
  • With your hands (technical skills)?
• What will you take away from this class that you will still use a year from now?

Courtney Merriam

1. What is the most important thing that you learned this semester in this class?
   1. With your head (biological or bioinformatics principles)
      • How to properly use and understand biological databases.
   2. With your heart (personal qualities and teamwork qualities that make things work or not work)?
      • How to collaborate with partners while now working together in person (Thankyou google docs)
   3. With your hands (technical skills)?
      • How to write in wiki syntax and remembering to save often
2. What will you take away from this class that you will still use a year from now?
   • Properly citing all my resources for every assignment

Courtney L. Merriam 20:58, 6 December 2016 (EST):

Zach Goldstein

What is the most important thing that you learned this semester in this class?

1. With your head (biological or bioinformatics principles)
   • This semester I learned that just because a paper is published in a well respected journal does not mean we can accept it as perfectly accurate and true. I learned that, as scientists, we have to always question and look to refute what is accepted by the majority because there are often biases in poor research practices and the information that is conveyed through a paper or scientific journal. I learned the importance of understanding methods and background, and not just results, because through these aspects of a paper you can criticize published work and run experiments of your own to disprove them. I also learned how to navigate through numerous databases and realized how much information is out on the internet if you know the right place to look (or can afford access).
2. With your heart (personal qualities and teamwork qualities that make things work or not work)?
   • This class made me realize I cannot do all projects on my own. Normally when I am assigned to a group project I like to do most of the work myself, but analyzing and presentations and presenting on these papers has shown me sometimes that is just not possible. Teamwork is very important in this class, and you have to learn to trust your partners like you trust yourself.
3. With your hands (technical skills)?
   • I learned how to use databases to search for information and run nucleic acid and amino acid sequence alignments, highlight differences, and create rooted and unrooted phylogenetic trees. I also learned how to write in wiki syntax which is a fun skill to have, although i don't know how practical it will be for my future classes or projects.
4. What will you take away from this class that you will still use a year from now?
   • From this class I will take a much clearer understanding of what bioinformatics is and it's relevance in the world of biology.

Zachary T. Goldstein 21:10, 8 December 2016 (EST)Zachary T. Goldstein