Informatics and data analysis - McMahon - MEWE 2013
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Informatics and Data Analysis
Trina McMahonUniversity of Wisconsin – Madison
Take-home messages
• Treat your computer work like you would your bench work
• Learn to love the command line
• Seek help within your network locally and globally
• Read work being done on other ecosystems
Electronic lab notebook
Boring (but REALLY IMPORTANT) stuff...
• Be mindful of how you organize files on your computer
• Come up with a system that works for you and be consistent
• Don’t be afraid to modify your system if your needs change over time
• Ask for help!! Consult senior students and postdocs to find out what they do
Take-home messages
• Treat your computer work like you would your bench work
• Learn to love the command line
• Seek help within your network locally and globally
• Read work being done on other ecosystems
Demystifying the command line
Move beyond Excel
Standardization
GSC website
EBPR Microbial Observatory(Aaron Saunders, Aalborg Univ)
Take-home messages
• Treat your computer work like you would your bench work
• Learn to love the command line
• Seek help within your network locally and globally
• Read work being done on other ecosystems
Resources
• Websites and forums dedicated to particular tools (e.g. QIIME, mothur, MG-RAST)
• Software Carpentry workshops– http://software-carpentry.org/
• Intensive short courses• Social media– Follow Titus Brown, Jonathan Eisen, Jack Gilbert
• READ THE LITERATURE