# Week 01 Question Set

*What is your prior experience in this discipline?*

I have not taken a class in this discipline but have done some work with 16S sequences (aligning and creating a tree using RAxML) and am currently working with metagenomes.

*What do you hope to get out of this class?*

I want to learn the best practices for making my code easy to follow, and learn the most efficient ways to work with omics data.

*This class is strongly rooted in an independent project related to genomic analyses. What specific project do you have in mind? If you do not have any data or preference, data can be provided / aquired. If you do not have a specfic project, what approach would you like to master as part of this class?*

I have marine metagenomes and would like to work with the MAGs (metagenome assembled genomes) from the phylum Marinimicrobia. My idea is to look at the pangenome of Marinimicrobia but I am open to other ideas.

*What are two things you found most useful from the reading?*

The less command is very useful to quickly browse through a file, and how to use grep because I tend to forget the commands to make searching for a character string easier.