Summer Research Week 2 (07/11 - 07/15)

Bioinformatics

• Start taking notes on Bioinformatics Methods I, Coursera. You have learned the NCBI Blast in AP Biology, so it's shouldn't be too hard for you to cover the contents of week 1 & 2. It's an excellent opportunity to revisit it and see whether there is something new you can pick up

Machine Learning & Biology

• Read the following paper and take notes: What the papers say: Text mining for genomics and systems biology, Nathan Harmston, Wendy Filsell and Michael PH Stumpf, Human Genomics, 2010. Applying text mining to biological research in genomics and system biology is one of the areas that machine learning can potentially have major impact.