I Can't Believe Its Week Five!! 5!
This week will wrap up the taqman plating and SNP submission. Out of my 25 SNPs, 5 have been giving me trouble. As of today, I am down to only four SNPs left! On the positive side I've learned a lot more from the SNPs giving me trouble, than the ones that have worked. I now understand much more of how to judge the data collected from a SNP. Also how the data can be altered to give a more desired and readable information by changing temperature and number of cycles in the PCR reaction. In this way I feel I'm getting more out of the program and the lab, because its expanding my knowledge and allowing myself more independence in the lab work, which is alway appreciated and exciting.
Now as soon as the SNPs are all submitted I will move on to the statistics side of the work. We're going to mostly use a computer, I think, but I will also get to work out a couple by hand to understand better what it all means. I've never taken statistics and next year will be calculus. Because of this I'm generally looking foreward to it as something new and as a turning point in my research towards the results!!!
Overall what I'm looking for in this program is insight into the workings of a lab, and what that work might be for me if I chose to become a lab technician or statistician (that part will come next week). So far I like the lab, and I like the dynamics of it too. I do work on the computer, but I also get hands on work too with the DNA and PCR reactions. I like the variation of it.
