Sticky exercise: Let's bring it back out to the questions that brought you here to STAMPS!

Please populate your stickies (yellow and pink) as follows:

## Yellow/Green Stickies: Scientific Questions

- **"Questions you'd like to ask of microbial communities."**
Please try to abstract/generalize!

- _who is there?_
- _what are they doing?_

## Pink Stickies: Tools

- **"Tools for analyzing microbial sequence data"**
- _sourmash_
- ...?

## Part 2: Build a Framework!

- How would you link the tools answer these questions? **Can you generalize the _process_ being used at each step**?
- What steps are in common; what steps are unique?
- Are there critical missing links?

## Part 3: Discuss other Frameworks
- What did they do differently?
- Do you agree/disagree on anything?

## Part 4: Recap

## Closing thoughts

- Your questions are always the most important part.

- All these tools (wet & dry lab) are imperfect ways to investigate microbial organisms and communities.
- Methods will change over time (hopefully for the better).
- Recognize their limitations, but don't let that hold back your science.