aliciamstt/tallerbioinf

Taller práctico de bioinformática Posgrado en Ciencias Biológicas UNAM

tallerbioinf's Issues

Class Feedback from Group 3

Overall, we all really enjoyed the class, learned a lot, and were able to apply lessons learned directly to our own projects. The teaching styles and overall attitudes of the professors added to make the class enjoyable and useful.

We liked the seminars given by invited speakers, as they expanded the practicality of the tools we were learning.

Some of us who took the "Introduction to Bioinformatics" class not so recently (or who didn't take the intro class) would have like a few more classes taught by professors to get refresher.

Issues sometimes were hard to come up with, if they didn't come up naturally we felt pressured to come up with something last minute. This may have been a result of being a virtual class this semester, and maybe wouldn't be a problem with in-person classes as much. Maybe could be better structured by spreading out the issues with the classes.

Also, there wasn't a scale of issues going from easier to harder, it would be nice to have more 'beginner' issues at the beginning of the class. There could be themes for issues, e.g. 'who has issues with installation?' for an early classes, then issues get harder as you go. But we realize that this may contradict our previous comment about having difficulty coming up with issues.

The semester structure (having being broken up by Xmas vacation) made it difficult to come back in January and finish strong, although we realize that is out of the hands of the professors.

The docker class would have been useful earlier in the course.

We liked Discord a lot, especially the audio/video options and the breakout rooms (and the meme room!).

The student projects in GitHub helped us to organize our projects and we found it useful outside of the scope of the class (i.e. for our thesis).

We liked the community available for discussing problems or overall bioinformatics themes, especially since we have been isolated in lockdown for tooooo loooooonggggggg.

Thank you for teaching a great class, Camille, Alicia, y Marisol!

About this magical course

The best things about the course

• The use of GitHub as the centre of the course, because it is a must!
• Learning more about best practices, so we don't go crazy later.
• Is great to participate in solving issues, because in a huge part in every days work.
• To meet some great people to work with. And knowing some different areas of genomic analysis to extend the perspectives.
• To do seminars (students and also more experienced people)
• Force us to speak and write on English (Basic!)
• The comments to enhance the repository before the final presentation is great.
• Discord is awesome.
• The course's repository is well organized so you are.
• Also about the repository, the access to see the content and have a better idea before choose this course.
• Alicia, Cami and Marisol have complementary personalities, they make a great team.

Opportunity areas

• There could be less issues sessions.
• In terms of choose the subjects of the seminars, do a more formal survey, maybe to choose in a list of bioinformatic subjects, the most popular for each one.
• In the seminars, prioritize the practical part (well organized to have enough time to do it)
• Get more time for Best practices as well as R functions. With more detailed examples and time.
• We think that one repository presentation is enough, because the second is almost redundant.
• Your comments before the final presentation could be earlier in the course to have more time to attend all the comments.

Retroalimentación y comentarios Equipo 1

Retroalimentación Equipo 1

Utilidades del curso en nuestros proyectos

La principal utilidad del curso para nosotros fue que ayudo a organizar mejor nuestro proyectos, al usar GitHub. Primero al tener organizado todos nuestros scripts y nuestra información dentro de carpetas nos ayudo bastante a tener identificados nuestros archivos input y output. La actualización constante de las carpetas nos ayudo a visualizar los avances del proyecto. Además, nos ayudo a tener mejor ordenados los mismos scripts, ya que nos ha enseñado a describir a detalle paso por paso que es lo que hace cada argumento. Otra utilidad fue el control de versiones nos permitió marcar estados estables de nuestros proyectos a los cuales podemos regresar si lo necesitamos. También conocer los problemas de los compañeros ayudó a conocer nuevas funciones que podríamos agregar a nuestro proyecto y a resolver nuestros propios issues de manera más fácil.
La evaluación y comentarios de los repositorios han ayudado a tener una mejor organización de los mismos, además de tener una mejor ortografía en inglés y que quede claro para cualquier persona que quiera usar nuestro proceso. La revisión que nos dan de las estructuras de los scripts ayuda mucho a que sean aplicables para cualquiera que desee observar nuestros datos. Esto ayuda mucho para que nuestros proyectos sean totalmente reproducibles. Por último, el manejo de los proyectos en GitHub ayuda a tener un mejor control de nuestros repositorios.

Cosas por mejorar en el curso

Lo único que pensamos que podría mejorar es que eligieran estudiantes con proyectos afines para desde un inicio formar equipos y que la retroalimentación sea más enfocada. La idea de los invitados es muy buena, pero quizá podrían hacer presentaciones más fáciles de implementar como la presentación de Rodolfo que además quedó guardada en un repo.