For our project #SourceCode we had to write get someone's DNA sequence and try to find everything we could find about this person, but we mostly focus on their ancestry and what types of diseases they were possibly prone to. Once we hard our project description were put into groups of 4. Once we were in these groups our teacher (Mackenzie Schultz) told us the that each of us had to pick one job to do, we had 4 jobs. These jobs were Bioinformaticist, Biologist, Artist, and Project Manager. I chose the role of Bioinformaticist. I chose this role because at the time of chosing I was working on CodeAcademy, a programming website for people interested in coding. As I was working with this, the Bioinformaticist had to write code to compare our person's DNA sequence to 1,000 other people's DNA sequence. A challenge that I had as a bioinformaticist was trying to write the code itself because our teach gave us instructions but they were very vague. We had google most things if not all of the things in our code. But I did enjoy this challenge because it gave me a new perspective on how to use my resources to the best of my ability. I also believe that the one of most valueable information I learned this project that I will carry with me, is having the ability to understand code and figure out how it functions.
For our exhibition our teacher asked us to prepare some explanations for our different types of audiences, below this I will be showing you my explanations:
8-Year Old Kid:
For our project, we gave instructions to a computer making it do a job. Although, the computer does not know how to follow our directions, so we have to lead it step by step the entire way. If we do manage to succeed, we will get certain results. The result was a person’s race. I will now show you what the computer did. (show kid(s) the infographic that we made)
Average Exhibition Visitor:
For our project we had to code, so basically what we did was that we had one person go on a computer and write instructions for a computer to follow. This took us about 2 weeks to figure out the right code/instructions for the computer to follow. Once we finished the code we ran it through a program called Python. When the code did run this person’s genome it gave us off his genetic information that he had. Once we got all this information we were able to look through it and find where this person came from, his ancestry. (show these people(s) the infographic)
Physics Ph.D:
For our project, we had to use a person’s DNA map to figure out what ethnicity he/she was. In order to do this, we had to create a code in Python to accomplish this. What the code would do is that it takes the information from the DNA map and look for certain lines and then print them in a new document. These lines dealt with the person’s genome and it would determine what race he/she was. It took us about two weeks before we got the code correct
8-Year Old Kid:
For our project, we gave instructions to a computer making it do a job. Although, the computer does not know how to follow our directions, so we have to lead it step by step the entire way. If we do manage to succeed, we will get certain results. The result was a person’s race. I will now show you what the computer did. (show kid(s) the infographic that we made)
Average Exhibition Visitor:
For our project we had to code, so basically what we did was that we had one person go on a computer and write instructions for a computer to follow. This took us about 2 weeks to figure out the right code/instructions for the computer to follow. Once we finished the code we ran it through a program called Python. When the code did run this person’s genome it gave us off his genetic information that he had. Once we got all this information we were able to look through it and find where this person came from, his ancestry. (show these people(s) the infographic)
Physics Ph.D:
For our project, we had to use a person’s DNA map to figure out what ethnicity he/she was. In order to do this, we had to create a code in Python to accomplish this. What the code would do is that it takes the information from the DNA map and look for certain lines and then print them in a new document. These lines dealt with the person’s genome and it would determine what race he/she was. It took us about two weeks before we got the code correct