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Congratulations on continuing as an intern in the National Institutes of Health's Bioinformatics Internship Program (BIP). As you know, you will focus on Avian Influenza (AI) work. But before embarking on that project, there are skills that you will need to know - such as how to find and compare molecular sequences and how to organize the sequences into a phylogenetic tree for evaluating their evolutionary relationship. You likely will use your influenza data set in your later work to help identify the source of an outbreak or to determine the appropriateness of a vaccine.
We have designed a set of activities to prepare you. These activities are described by your project leader in the subsequent emails. More detailed instructions for these tasks will be covered in the Requirements for these assignments.
After you complete these crucial assignments, your BIP Project Leader will introduce you to the Avian Influenza assignments.
Before you begin - be…
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Welcome and congratulations on being an intern in the National Institutes of Health’s Bioinformatics Internship Program (BIP). For this particular project, we will be working in collaboration with the World Health Organization. You will be working on a small team that is preparing to be useful when called upon later in the event of an Avian Influenza outbreak. Bioinformatics technicians or researchers are first responders of sorts - they have to take raw sequence data and determine the relationships of the circulating influenza with previously known influenzas. Your work will be critical.
The experience you have had in the previous tasks related to influenza will help you to understand and navigate through the Avian Flu data. Having done these exercises ensures that you are at the level needed do the Avian Flu related assignments in the Bioinformatics Internship Program.
Your BIP Project Leader will introduce you to the Avian Flu task, giving you specific ins…
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Welcome to the Bioinformatics internship program, I am looking forward to working with each of you.
Click on Navigating the NCBI Databases in the left navigation bar of this site to start your next assignment. Your research mentor will assign you a research question that you will use the NCBI databases to answer.
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Subtasks for this task are:
1.1: Navigating the NCBI Database
1.2: Presenting Your Research
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The connection between bioinformatics and public health is apparent in this next task. I'd like you to obtain data from the CDC website about the incidence of different subtypes of influenza in the U.S. human population and prepare graphs in order to identify the types of influenza that have been most prevalent during the past ten seasons.
After evaluating your graphs, be prepared to discuss the implications of your results and what the results mean in terms of predicting and in terms of developing a flu vaccine. This can be in the form of an informal report to the whole group, your fellow interns and supervisors.
Just to clarify: you and your team will gather and review influenza data from the past ten years and determine which strains should have been used for last year's vaccine. At the end, you will discuss your results, along with the challenges of predicting and developing new vaccines.
* Obtain data about the incidence of influenza i…
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I want to build on the Director’s welcome and introduction to your first important work here. The research and analysis you do early on regarding use and exploitation of the earth’s natural resources will contribute to our later media campaigns to help others see the relationship between resource degradation and the impact on society. We want the public to be able to make informed decisions about environmental issues that affect their lives.
You’ll need to be out there in the community – familiarize yourself with the agencies, people and projects that will be a resource to you in investigating issues. Remember the research you do for these early assignments on regional and local issues related to air, water and food will come in handy for GreenHealth’s future activism..
I’ve been wanting to get to this research, but I haven’t had time. I’m really glad to have your help!
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Subtasks associated with this task:
1.1: Air Quality Research<…
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GreenHealth’s next exciting project is a documentary for TV and likely distribution to interested educational institutions. You will be working with a team to research, present findings and pitch themes that can be used for the documentary. You’ll be presenting to the editorial team and producers for the documentary. This should be relaxed and low key – they will want to learn from you.
Work with a team of 2-4 to research sustainable worldviews, sustainable solutions, and/or sustainable approaches to a particular topic. Focus on one of the new books that are out on the environment and sustainability – or one of the classics. There is a list in the Requirements, just to get you thinking. Try to concentrate on a book with positive solutions. The producers think this could be compelling content for an informational/educational documentary around sustainability.
One of the following questions or issues can drive your thinking and give structure to your research…
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Now for the fun assignment! I think you have the background you need to work directly on Innovo’s contract with the national rescue squad to design, build and test the performance of a robot that the rescue squad can use. You’ll remember from the original briefing that the robot will need to navigate through rubble to locate people trapped in collapsed buildings and determine their status. The robot will need to either help lift or move pieces of rubble, or deliver small needed items until the rescue workers can get to them. The Robot Challenge Description (doc) describes some of the Engineering considerations in this complex task.
After examining a number of options, Innovo has partnered with Carnegie-Mellon University’s robotics institute to use the Telepresence Robotics Kit (TeRK) as a starting model. We wanted to build on solid work already done – and you’ll have plenty of design work to do to customize this model. I suggest that you have a look at notes from a NA…
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I’m pleased that we have such a talented group of interns! As you know, we have a number of high profile projects coming up. To contribute at the level we need for the search and rescue project, you will have to develop some background and expertise on structural collapse and failure.
I will give you further direction for your research and tasks in subsequent emails. Your deliverables will be detailed as well; they are just listed here:
* Presentation regarding structural collapse cases and lessons learned.
* Results and your observations of an earthquake simulation
* Excel data tables – force, mechanical advantage and friction
* Presentation and write up of recommended applications of simple machines in a structural collapse situation.
Before you get started, download this handout (pdf) about documentation and project management that we have all interns read. We value keeping an engineering logbook and this will shed l…
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I’m pleased to welcome the new members of the software design group.
You have been asked to work on a website for the Palo Alto Bicycle Club. By joining the development team for this project at QuickSoft Associates, you have affiliated with a talented group. We pride ourselves on bringing the best and the brightest programmers on board. This will be obvious to you when you participate in weekly code reviews during development.
We expect each of you to make the client’s needs your priority and be able to communicate how we are accommodating those needs in the software you develop. QuickSoft is developing a reputation for delivering quality products on time.
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QuickSoft Associates
Memorandum
To: Python Development Team
From: QuickSoft Principal
Subject: New contract – Auto repair records system
I’m glad that you will be able to focus on the contract we landed this week with Dermico Auto to develop a maintenance records system. This is a small auto repair shop that is preparing for growth. The mechanics will have access to computers on the floor and they need a car’s maintenance history attached to each car that comes into the shop.
This isn’t a huge project since we won’t be doing their billing system. But this could be a profitable product for us in this niche. We are lucky to have your expertise on the project. Welcome aboard!
The Auto Repair Records System will allow office personnel and mechanics to enter data about customers including name, address, contact info, car type(s) and maintenance needs and operations. The da…
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