Disha - Bioinformatics Pathway

Self Assessment 3

Concise Overview of Things Learned

  • Technical Area: New R packages (for example: limma), object manipulation in R, data annotation
  • Tools: More RStudio experience, Asana
  • Soft Skills: Presentation skills, leading team building (happy hour), working in a team of new people

Three Achievement Highlights

  • Object manipulation in R: Sometimes functions don’t work with specific object formats, I have learned how to deal with that
  • Better understood the volcano plots and how to set thresholds
  • Successful organization of Happy Hour

List of Meetings/ Training Attended Including Social Team Events

  • Team meetings
  • Technical webinars (R training, Bioinformatics Overview)
  • Organized and led Happy Hour

Tasks Completed
I completed all steps of the Week 4 assignment using the Troubleshooting Forum and Bioconductor package documentation to help solve issues. I had an issue with the functions not being compatible with my objects, but I learned how to sort it out. I played around with volcano plots a lot to better understand them.

Goals For The Upcoming Week

I am focusing mainly on learning R at this point so that I can fully understand each step and what it does in the overall project. I plan to catch up on Github and Python soon.

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