Team:Berkeley Software/DougNotebook

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Densmore 16:00, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Douglas Densmore - Out of the lab

Yesterday was the first official day for Berkeley's 2009 iGEM computational team. In the morning we had an introductory meeting and the students filled out forms so that they had key access to Cory Hall, the DOP Center, and their office space. It was great that we were able to get this taken care of so quickly!

After the short time together in the morning, they went to safety training from 10-noon. This was followed by a meeting of both teams over pizza lunch in Stanley Hall. This was a good chance to meet everyone and get some logistics out of the way (stipends, photo release forms, etc).


In the afternoon we did the following:


At the end of the meeting the students were given tasks for the week. The first tasks for the team are as follows:

  1. Think about which project(s) you would like to be involved in.
  2. Add an entry to your notebook with the following:
    • Introductory paragraph
    • Picture
    • Short description of their first short project
    • Short description of their first long project (with a bulleted list of tasks they are going to need to take)
  3. Play with Clotho
    • Take notes on all the bugs they find
      • Prize for the most/best bugs found
  4. Give feedback on the help files
  5. Meet with Doug before the week is out to talk about their role on the team



Today we:

  1. Discussed how to edit the wiki
  2. Went through a quick Clotho tutorial
  3. Talked about the coding standards for the project
  4. Decided on the owners for the help files. They are:

Richard

  • SequenceView

Nina

  • Main Toolbar
  • Clotho mySQL Connection

Joanna

  • Features Library

Adam

  • Info View
  • Enzyme Library
  • Notepad

Bing

  • Database Manager
  • mySQL Pobol Connection

Thien

  • Parts Navigator

Doug

  • Plate Manager
  • Algorithm Manager

Nade

  • Parts Manager



Densmore 19:47, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Today I met with Nina, Joanna, and Adam (or at least I will by the end of the day) to assign them each to projects and to explain to them more about what they are doing. Here are the project assignments so far:

Project Assignments
Project PI One PI Two
Data Model Bing Evan
Visualization Richard Joanna
Robot Automation Nina Bing
Workflows (Kepler) Thien ?
Language Dev. Adam Lesia
Plug-In/Community Lesia Richard

The projects have both a PI One (Principle Investigator One) and a PI Two (yes I understand that it is strange to have two "principle" investigators). On Thursday each project will be assigned a day of the week for the weekly meeting. These meetings will be between 2-3 hours long each