Summer Research Week 3 (07/18 - 07/22)

You are making wonderful progress! This week we are going to focus on 3 aspects:

1. Finishing up any pending note-taking from the previous two weeks. There is no limit for the number of posts you can do in one week. You can separate them in any logical and convenient ways. Also, don't forget to view you posts after you posting them. I have fixed some format errors in your past two posts. 
2. Read through a paper (A framework for the development of Biomedical Text Mining software tools) describing the basic framework of a text mining system for bioinformatics. You don't need to understand the details of every system/tool mentioned in the paper. However, try to capture the main idea about the whole framework and where and how these systems and tools can be put together to help people study biology. Hopefully, it will give you a bigger picture behind the paper you have read last week.
3. Lyme disease- this is the field that our research will be focusing on! Obviously, we are not going to build a general system solving all the biomedical problems. Instead, we will try to see how text mining can help people solve some problems in the research of Lyme disease. Professor Qiu in Hunter College gave me a review paper (Evolutionary Genomics of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato- Findings, Hypotheses, and the Rise of Hybrids) he wrote about Lyme disease. I believe that it will be a good starting point for us to explore this field. The paper is pretty long, so it is expected to extended this effort into next week.