Grades submitted! Thank you!

Class,

I submitted all grades to MyPack this morning. I want to reiterate: it has been a pleasure to get to know each of you and watch you develop skills, analyze data, and produce creative projects. I truly hope this class met some of your course objectives. 

This has been a tough semester, and you all had numerous competing interests. I was impressed with your data analyses and creative projects. Your podcasts are fantastic!

Wrapping up!

If you haven’t done so already, please complete the statement on Moodle to let us know if and how you are willing to share your work.

Additionally, I hope you take some time to complete the optional post quiz and survey.

Remember that the BIT Metagenomics Website will have the tutorials and podcasts that your peers created and hopefully is a resource for you moving forward.

This was a team effort: 

  • Dr. Erin McKenney taught us about guts, 
  • Dr. Diana Lafferty prepared the samples for us, 
  • Dr. Kerry Nicholson at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game tracked down marten samples, 
  • Jason Evans Groth helped you record stellar podcasts, 
  • Dr. Jason Whitham answered numerous emails about KBase and the HPC
  • Dr. Lisa Lowe got us on the HPC
  • The Nephele Bioinformatics crew answered several questions about their pipelines and let us totally abuse Nephele with jobs…
  • The Zymo Research team answered questions about the QuickITS/16S kit, and
  • The QIAGEN team rushed delivery of an overnight kit for us to prepare libraries…
  • The GSL team helped do two runs in one month,
  • The Biotechnology Program (BIT) for space and support to offer the course,
  • Last but not least, Billy Marx did a tremendous amount of work behind the scenes to make sure you had activities.

Thank this fantastic team if you have a chance!

While we had the inevitable hiccups and almost fried a computer with the Nanopore run, I do believe we generated a lot of usable data and analyses. You should all be proud!

Take care and thank you for a great semester! Let me know if I can ever help.

CG

Thank you!
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