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What aspect of this assignment came most easily to you?
What aspect of this assignment was the most challenging for you?
What (yet) do you not understand?
Does "crunching" the data yourself help you to understand microarray experiments in general and the Schade paper in particular? Why or why not?

Manipulating functions in excel was the easiest part for me.
The most challenging aspect was answering the application questions and interpreting the large spreadsheet of numbers
I don't think there is any part of this assignment that I am not capable of understanding (the instructions were VERY clear, thank you!) but I'm just going to need time to process everything I need and really understand what I was doing with ever function and column.
It is really helpful to be able to do the math on my own, but it is even more valuable to have the detailed instructions beside me. I don't think I can compare the Dahlquist and Schade data very well because of the different time intervals, but it is still helpful to understand the background and how to normalize ratios and such.

Sarah Carratt 20:34, 4 April 2011 (EDT)

The aspect that came most easily to me was using excel and computing all the necessary data.
The aspect that came most challenging to me was trying to figure out why YHL030W would be chnaging its expression during cold shock. Having the data and connecting it back to biology has been hard for me. I think that I have gotten better and that I can connect more pieces, but I am not quite there yet. I am still working ion making this a strenght rather than a weakness.
I think that this has been one of the assignments I have understood more in comparison to others. I think this is because I understand the math behind it and what it means. I still do not understand how we are going to comapre all the data, when the Schade et al. paper has different time points than the Dahlquist data.

Alondra Vega 01:11, 4 April 2011 (EDT)

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+# I don't think there is any part of this assignment that I am not capable of understanding (the instructions were VERY clear, thank you!) but I'm just going to need time to process everything I need and really understand what I was doing with ever function and column.
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+# It is really helpful to be able to do the math on my own, but it is even more valuable to have the detailed instructions beside me. I don't think I can compare the Dahlquist and Schade data very well because of the different time intervals, but it is still helpful to understand the background and how to normalize ratios and such.
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+[[User:Sarah Carratt|Sarah Carratt]] 20:34, 4 April 2011 (EDT)
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