# Week 01 Questions

_What is your prior experience in this discipline?_

I do not have much experience in coding. I have been learning R on my own time. I have some experience with MATLAB. 

_What do you hope to get out of this class?_

I hope that I can learn how to manage my data, be able to organize my data well for research, and I hope to learn more about R. I want to become more comfortable with coding.

_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?_

This is something I have been thinking. My lab focuses on metabolomics but I want to get more bioinformatics skils which is why I am taking this class. I was considering maybe performing some comparative genomic analyzes with microbes in the ocean. I was also considering maybe looking into transcriptomes from euryarchaeota in the ocean. Or looking into BHMT genes. My concern is where I could acquire the data so I would like more guidance of what I could be capable of doing. 

_What are two things you found most useful from the reading?_

I am not completely sure if I had the right readings? But from what I read on the additional material for the Bioinformatics Data Skills I learned about wildcards which was useful to look back on. I also found interesting learning about Latex and how it can be used and may be used in our class.