Please prepare an extended outlines for Bioinformatic class' project. . guidelines are attached below.

BI OINFORMATICS – Outline for the end of the semester project

Each individual will find 2 or 3 papers in the literature (Primary research papers only) that A) represent an area of biology that you are interested in; and B) represent work in the area of bioinformatics. Once you have honed in on these papers, read them with an eye toward understanding:

• What is the biological problem that the authors are trying to address, and what was their motivation?
• What previous work has been done in the area, and what tools were used in address this problem?
• What are the specifics about the bioinformatics approaches (e.g., particular programs, methods, programming language, databases, etc.) used?
• Did the authors evaluate whether the approaches used provided biologically meaningful results?

You will prepare a 15 (+/- 2) minute presentation that includes some discussion of the biology/problem/background, but that focus most of the attention on the bioinformatics aspects. You will discuss methods/approaches, software used, etc., and present some results that you have obtained using e.g., a bioinformatics approach outlined in the papers.

Remember that this will be due at the END of the semester; however, at this point I would like you to prepare a short outline that cites the papers you have chosen, briefly reports on the area of biology/problem/background related to the topic you have chosen. Next include a brief synopsis of the bioinformatics tools used, and a hint at some of the results obtained. Finally, include a list of names (if any) of individuals that you are considering working with as a group.

This outline is not a complete report, and should be one or two outlining pages and nothing longer. The point here is that I would like to A) check that you have selected and read some papers; B) to have an idea about the bioinformatics work you will be presenting on.