Norman_Zvenyika - Bioinformatics (Level 1) Pathway

Certificates Summer 2021 Certificates Bioinformatics Workflow 2021
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Module 1 Self-Assessment

Technical Area

  • Installed RStudio
  • Learned basic R fundamentals such coding and syntax
  • Learned how to read scientific papers

Tools

  • RStudio
  • R
  • Win-Zip

Soft Skills

  • Effective time management – meeting tasks deadlines and managing other activities that I am doing.
  • Effective communication with my team (both synchronous and asynchronous)

Achievement Highlights

  • Successfully install RStudio
  • Familiarized myself with R syntax and working in RStudio
  • Practiced reading research papers of my choice

Difficulties during the tasks

STEM-Away website was difficult to navigate. I got help from the project leads

2

Overview

Module 2:

Technical:

  • Created a metadata file using a text file from the GEO database.

  • Downloaded and installed several packages for module 3

Soft Skills:

  • Communication

  • Troubleshooting

Tools:

  • R Studio

  • WinZip

  • Excel

  • GEO Database

  • Bioconductor

  • GEOquery

Achievements:

  • Successfully downloaded data from the GEO database

  • Created a metadata file

  • Imported metadata into rStudio

Hurdles:

  • I had a challenge with using the ReadAffy command. I received help from the project leads.