BIOL398-01/S11:Class Journal Week 9: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 20:24, 23 March 2011

Store your journal entry in the shared Class Journal Week 9 page. If this page does not exist yet, go ahead and create it (congratulations on getting in first :) )
Link to your journal entry from your user page.
Link back from the journal entry to your user page.
Sign your portion of the journal with the standard wiki signature shortcut (~~~~).

Critically evaluate the Schade et al. (2004) paper.

Overall, do you think this paper was clearly written? Why or why not?
Based on what is written in the methods section, do you think you could reproduce their experiments and data analysis?
What else would you like to know about their methods, results, and future directions?

I personally believe that this paper was clearly written. I feel that I was able to understand most of it and the figures were easy to understand. They had a lot of description and if they did lack something they told us where we could find the details.
This has been the best scientific paper in the methodology section that I have read. The subsections help the reader understand what is going on and what tools were used. They told us the specific strains and where they got them from. Also, they told us what kits they used and the number of replicates. They made it very clear, so we could replicate the experiment. It makes sense too, since in their discussion they talk about the problem with comparing data sets, thus they wanted to make it easier for the people who would compare it to theirs next.
I would like to know if any new mechanism was found that respond to cold stress. Also, if any new genes in the trehalose and glycogen were found to help with the accumulation in the ECR, if there has been any found.

Alondra Vega 21:18, 23 March 2011 (EDT)

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 == Instructions ==
-===Formatting===
+== Shared Journal Assignment ==
+* Store your journal entry in the shared [[BIOL398-01/S11:Class Journal Week 9 | Class Journal Week 9]] page.  If this page does not exist yet, go ahead and create it (congratulations on getting in first&nbsp;''':)'''&nbsp;)
 * Link to your journal entry from your user page.
 * Link back from the journal entry to your user page.
 * Sign your portion of the journal with the standard wiki signature shortcut (<code><nowiki>~~~~</nowiki></code>).
-* Add the "BIOL398-01/S11" category to the end of the wiki page (if someone has not already done so).
-===Reflection===
+=== Reflection ===
+Critically evaluate the Schade et al. (2004) paper.
+# Overall, do you think this paper was clearly written?  Why or why not?
+# Based on what is written in the methods section, do you think you could reproduce their experiments and data analysis?
+# What else would you like to know about their methods, results, and future directions?
 == Class Responses ==