IllinoisTools/12 September 2009

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Donny

Spent a lot of time just running the calculations and investigated sources of error as well as working on data collection with Nate. After a previous restructuring of the data models there were some lingering problems in the calculations that got resolved this week.

Nate

I met up with Kanishka this week to talk about ideas for our website. He also had some design ideas for the website, which I considered and applied accordingly to my current design for the website. I also met with Donny and we were able to conclude that my code for data collecting was insufficient for our purposes. It was good for initially collecting data to work with locally, but in order for our online database, we will need code that can collect data and store it automatically while deleting the old database without making use of dictionaries as I have been doing in the past. additionally, my previous code was poorly written as it was, very amateurish and not very efficient. Therefore, I hope to re-write some of my code in a more efficient manner that will be more useful to our website in the form of upodater scripts.

Kanishka

Helped Riyad look for code that allowed to search for restriction enzymes on biobricks