1. Informatics and Data Analysis
Trina McMahon
University of Wisconsin – Madison

2. Take-home messages
• Treat your computer work like you would your
bench work
• Learn to love the command line
• Seek help within your network locally and
globally
• Read work being done on other ecosystems

3. Electronic lab notebook

4. Boring (but REALLY IMPORTANT) stuff...
• Be mindful of how you organize files on your
computer
• Come up with a system that works for you and
be consistent
• Don’t be afraid to modify your system if your
needs change over time
• Ask for help!! Consult senior students and
postdocs to find out what they do

5. Take-home messages
• Treat your computer work like you would your
bench work
• Learn to love the command line
• Seek help within your network locally and
globally
• Read work being done on other ecosystems

6. Demystifying the command line

7. Move beyond Excel

8. Standardization

9. GSC website

10. EBPR Microbial Observatory
(Aaron Saunders, Aalborg Univ)

11. Take-home messages
• Treat your computer work like you would your
bench work
• Learn to love the command line
• Seek help within your network locally and
globally
• Read work being done on other ecosystems

12. Resources
• Websites and forums dedicated to particular
tools (e.g. QIIME, mothur, MG-RAST)
• Software Carpentry workshops
– http://software-carpentry.org/
• Intensive short courses
• Social media
– Follow Titus Brown, Jonathan Eisen, Jack Gilbert
• READ THE LITERATURE