PRE-Class survey
HCS806 BioInformatics 2009 PRE-Class Survey
Please mark the box
that describes you
Graduate student
Post-doctoral Fellow
Please indicate your academic focus:
A1
Staff
Faculty
Mark one box in this column
to indicate your primary focus:
Mark all that apply to indicate
your secondary foci:
Population Genetics and Evolution
Molecular Biology
Genomics or Bioinformatics
Pathology
Plant breeding
Other (specify):
The following questions are designed to help us determine the logistics of HCS806 Bioinformatics:
1) Do you have a laptop that you can bring to class?
2) Is your laptop network approved through OSU/OARDC?
3) Can you access the campus wireless network with your laptop?
4) Can your laptop read DVDs?
Please mark one number in each row to indicate how confident you are right
now about your current ability to do each of the following:
Not at all
confident
Not very
confident
Somewhat
confident
Very
confident
Extremely
confident
A1
Install software in the WINDOWS operating system
1
2
3
4
5
A2
Use NCBI databases for BLAST
1
2
3
4
5
A3
Interpret a BLAST output
1
2
3
4
5
A4
Use UNIX/LINUX operating system
1
2
3
4
5
A5
Search databases and literature associated with gene function
1
2
3
4
5
A6
Use ENTREZ to download custom sequence databases
1
2
3
4
5
A7
Format a database for stand-along BLAST in UNIX
1
2
3
4
5
A8
Run stand-alone BLAST on your computer
1
2
3
4
5
A9
Run a PERL program
1
2
3
4
5
1
2
3
4
5
A10 Use BioPERL
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