Informatics and Data Analysis

Trina McMahonUniversity of Wisconsin – Madison

Take-home messages

• Treat your computer work like you would your bench work

• Learn to love the command line

• Seek help within your network locally and globally

• Read work being done on other ecosystems

Electronic lab notebook

Boring (but REALLY IMPORTANT) stuff...

• Be mindful of how you organize files on your computer

• Come up with a system that works for you and be consistent

• Don’t be afraid to modify your system if your needs change over time

• Ask for help!! Consult senior students and postdocs to find out what they do

Take-home messages

• Treat your computer work like you would your bench work

• Learn to love the command line

• Seek help within your network locally and globally

• Read work being done on other ecosystems

Demystifying the command line

Move beyond Excel

Standardization

GSC website

EBPR Microbial Observatory(Aaron Saunders, Aalborg Univ)

Take-home messages

• Treat your computer work like you would your bench work

• Learn to love the command line

• Seek help within your network locally and globally

• Read work being done on other ecosystems

Resources

• Websites and forums dedicated to particular tools (e.g. QIIME, mothur, MG-RAST)

• Software Carpentry workshops– http://software-carpentry.org/

• Intensive short courses• Social media– Follow Titus Brown, Jonathan Eisen, Jack Gilbert

• READ THE LITERATURE