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Introductions and Getting Started

Intro:

  • Instructors: Tracy Teal, Titus Brown

  • TAs: Qingpeng Zhang, Cait Pickens

  • Where are the materials? Here! http://swc-scripps.idyll.org/

  • Online chat? Here! http://j.mp/SWCchat

  • Comments? Questions? Fixes?
    • You can add comments at the bottom of each page.
    • You can also edit each page on github, and suggest them as changes.

  • The schedule is adaptable! Day 2 will be adjusted to how Day 1 goes, plus some.

  • Everything we talk about will be available through this Web site, one way or another...

  • Ask questions!

  • Watch for the cliffs: everything is going along fine and whups, that’s a big step...

Getting started:

  1. Please partner with someone that you know and has similar challenges.
  2. Please send to Tracy and Titus (tnt@idyll.org) a ~one paragraph description of a specific research problem that you are having. For example, “I am working on a marine organism and we got 5000 genes from sequencing and I need to figure out what their matches are in another organism and I want to automate the process.”
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