Team:Illinois-Tools/Notebook/Week2

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Donny

This week, I learned the basics of the python programming language. I spend most of my time working with the Kegg API to access data via the SOAP protocol. I was able to utilize this new information to create a module that converts the common name to a usable kegg_id and also to convert the kegg_id back to a name. One concern I have is that even these simple functions are somewhat slow. Perhaps we will find ways to speed these processes up in the weeks to come.

Riyad

We got Cobra working so I spent the majority of the week getting used to how Python and Cobra worked.