BIO00087H Workshop 6: Report writing guidance, project work and catch up
TBA
1 Learning objectives
Today, we will provide guidance for writing your 2000 word report. This is the only summative assessment for this module.
You can also use this time to start to revise workshops and/or start to work on your report.
2 Introduction
2.1 The Report
The report guide is here, which provides detailed information.
2.2 Summary
Your report should contain:
1. An introduction (up to 1000 words), like a literature review, that is relevant to the data analysis you chose to do. Don’t attempt a general genomics introduction!
2. A bioinformatic data analysis section (also up to 1000 words). During the module, we will show you how to analyse data to carry out these analyses, generally on a limited data set (or similar). For your report, you should carry out some more analysis on a larger data set (or similar). Each workshop details how to extend the analysis, as does the report guide.
- Genome assembly annotation and BLAST (Workshop 3)
- RNAseq analysis (Workshop 4)
- Single cell RNAseq (Workshop 5)
- Population genomics (Workshop 7)
2.3 To complete your report:
- Read the report guide
- Decide which workshop you want to extend
- Review the workshop (perhaps run through it again)
- Read the information at the end of the workshop about how to extend it for your report
- Carry out the data analysis for the bioinformatic data analysis section
- Read articles on this topic for the introduction
- Write the report
- Submit one pdf (that includes the supplementary method code) by Mon 20 January 2025, 12:00 noon.
To carry out this analysis, you can use the PC’s in the usual room (G/N/169). If you need to work from home, you can log into and use the teaching0 server. We describe how to sign into the teaching0 server here.
If you don’t use this already, we advise you to contact IT Support, or visit the library and talk to IT support about this well before you need it.
3 Exercises
Today, we will learn about the format of the report, and writing in a narrative style.
As an example, we will look at these articles:
Marguerat et al. (2012) Quantitative Analysis of Fission Yeast Transcriptomes and Proteomes in Proliferating and Quiescent Cells download the pdf here.
Miller et al. (2016) Elucidation of the genetic basis of variation for stem strength characteristics in bread wheat by Associative Transcriptomics.download the pdf here.
4 End
5 After the workshop
For those that are interested to conduct population genomics for their report, read (and/or start) workshop 7.
Otherwise, you can start on the analysis for your report.