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

Wednesday lab - 2/19

Slurm and farm

Friday discussion - 2/21

Homework

Please read the executive summary for the July 2019 CFDE report, as well as one of the DCC site visit appendices of the three CFDE reports (July, October, December). 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 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, 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, about the insidious resurgence of race science.

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