BNFO 301
Introduction to Bioinformatics
Questionnaire on: Introduction to Microarrays
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Spring 2005

I. Basic Information

A. Your name 
II. General questions on microarrays and their analysis
A. How far did you get in the Discovery Questions for Section 4.1?

B. How comfortable are you with what microarrays are and how they work?

C. How comfortable are you with log transformations of microarray data (Math Minute 1)?

D. How comfortable are you with correlation analysis of microarray data (Math Minute 2)?

E. How comfortable are you with cluster analysis of microarray data (Math Minute 3)?

Comments re general questions

III. Use of Microarrays
A. How comfortable are you interpretting Figures 4.11 and 4.12 as described in the text? 

B. Can you readily visualize how transcriptional activators and repressors work (as shown in the notes)? 

C. How comfortable are you extracting information from the Tup1 and Yap1 databases?? 

D. How comfortable are you interpretting the environmental stress response figures (Figs. 4.18 through 4.23)? 

E. How comfortable are you with imagining promoter structures that can explain microarray data? 

F. Choose up to four Discovery Questions that you would most like discussed in class:
 
Comments re
Using Microarrays

IV. Tutoring
  • What do you think of the tutoring experience so far?
  • Do you think it was of any use to your tutee?
  • Do you think it was of any use to you?
  • What thoughts do you have on doing similar things (online) in the future with your tutee?
V. Miscellaneous
  • Do you have a notion of what the first exam will be about? (if not, look at material on the calendar for Wednesday)
  • Are you developing questions that might be addressed on Wednesday?
  • How are things going?

Thanks!

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