VSNS-PPS ASSIGNMENT 0
This preliminary assignment was included as part of the email sent
out on 30th.January'95 to everyone on the course.
PRELIMINARY ASSIGNMENT
During the first 2 weeks, we'd like you to explore the biological
Internet as we've already suggested in a previous mail. USE YOUR GROUP
TO GIVE YOU ADVICE IF YOU RUN INTO PROBLEMS. :-) You will need to get
expert at getting information from the database and using tools. If you
find a very difficult problem but manage to solve it, perhaps you'd like to
write a short answer for the FAQ. E.g. "When I download a PDB file through
my browser, RasMol is not spawned" "Have you got a .mailcap file? Does it
contain the line ... , etc".
Weeks 1 and 2
Protein:
- Retrieve a sequence of your choice (SWISSPROT) and follow links to
PROSITE, OMIM, EMBL, MEDLINE, SWISS3DIMAGE, PDB.
- Retrieve the PDB file and display it in RasMol. Make sure you can
rotate and scale it and capture the picture.
- Explore the course material, but don't try to understand it if you
can't. This is to give you a rough idea of where things are on the course.
Non_protein:
Make sure you can:
- use e-mail
- display a GIF and capture it
- use Mage (UNIX is now available :)
- retrieve files with anonymous ftp (Mosaic etc will do this)
- uncompress files
Desirable skills (they will be essential later!)
create a simple HTML file.
create a picture using a paint package (xpaint, etc)
add a term to the practice area in the hyperglossary
Personal:
- Make friends in your group
- Make friends in BioMOO
- Prepare a html page about your country - we'll mount them at BBK.
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The first 2 weeks will be chaotic. DON'T WORRY IF AFTER A WEEK YOU THINK
IT'S A DISASTER. It won't be. Electronic collaboration takes time and
things will settle down.