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Node Code Breakers
Researcher's in Charge
Charlene Rodrigues, Holly Bratcher, Fran Colles, Odile Harrison, Keith Jolley, Margaret Varga, Martin Maiden, Helen Spiers,
Classifications
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Thoughts on Project
I thought this project was tedious and though I thought its cause was inspirational, it would take sometimes ten minutes to make one classification and since the gene sequence is the ATGC, it was also hard to stare at it for long periods of time and find out where it seemed to not work. I think it was just a little too hard to obtain data for me but it also taught me that data is hard to obtain. I just didn't really enjoy this project as much as I thought I would since I usually like topics around DNA I thought this would be fun. I think most importantly, it was different since it was a lot of staring for finding something small but with the other projects, I stared and drew and that made it way more fun! I wouldn't recommend this project but if its something you want to do to test the waters, that would be amazing!
The goal of this project is to help researchers annotate the germinal centers or the light pink circles in lymph nodes of breast cancer patients to track patterns and save people in the future! Decoding genes that are found in bacteria that will cause serious infections and diseases in humans. Infectious diseases, especially in third-world countries, are a huge threat to human life. There are also changes in the bacterial genes that cause genetic variation and they have to be identified. Since there is a lot of data around genomes and they are being sequenced everywhere all over the world, it makes the data that volunteers collect just as usable as data from actual scientists. I think the main reason it isn't computerized even though it could be is to have volunteers gain exposure to what the computer is actually doing and what people had to do before computers! Volunteers had to identify if the start and stop codons are there or missing. If they are there, identify where they are and which reading frame it corresponds to.