GGG 298 - Week 7 - 2/19 and 2/21, 2020

--- tags: ggg, ggg2020, ggg298 --- # GGG 298 - Week 7 - 2/19 and 2/21, 2020 [toc] ## Wednesday lab - 2/19 Slurm and farm ## Friday discussion - 2/21 ### Homework Please read [the executive summary](https://figshare.com/articles/2019-July_CFDE_AssessmentReport_pdf/9588374) for the July 2019 CFDE report, as well as _one_ of the DCC site visit appendices of the three CFDE reports ([July](https://figshare.com/articles/2019-July_CFDE_AssessmentReport_pdf/9588374), [October](https://figshare.com/articles/2019-October_CFDE_AssessmentReport_pdf/10261055), [December](https://figshare.com/articles/2019-December_CFDE_AssessmentReport_pdf/11592936)). Each of the DCC site visit appendices describe nine different Common Fund projects and their Data Coordinating Center operations; the projects are in the following appendices: * Human Microbiome Project - July * LINCS (drug assays on human cell lines) - July * GTEx human tissue RNAseq database - July * Kids First, Pediatric Oncology & Structural Birth Defect consortium - July * HuBMAP single cell human atlas - October * SPARC nervous system activity - October * 4D Nucleome, looking at chromatin structure over time - December * MoTrPac, looking at how molecular changes induced by exercise over time - December * Metabolomics, studying metabolites - December After reading the executive summary and an appendix, answer the following question and submit it to [this form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfYEV2hp3Ejl9qNpI_CX9th9uQgY_Un8S6Tnt2UHLlSogdBPQ/viewform) by Friday 2/21 at 11am: What is a major challenge facing the particular DCC you chose to read about, and how might the NIH CFDE effort tackle or solve it? ### Some other reading In class on 2/14 I mentioned [Seeing Like a State](https://www.amazon.com/Seeing-like-State-Certain-Condition/dp/0300078153), an amazing book on how top down schemes to regulate humanity don't tend to work out very well. People might also be interested in [Superior](https://www.amazon.com/Superior-Return-Science-Angela-Saini/dp/0807076910), about the insidious resurgence of race science.