Daily Bits - October 2022

20221031

  • Lab meeting.

    • Discussed Ch.6 of “The Disordered Cosmos”.
  • Worked on CEABIGR manuscript in preparation for Friday’s meeting with Kaite Lotterhos.


20221028

  • Science Hour

  • Worked heavily on getting CEABIGR max transcript counts Circos formatting.


20221027

  • Worked on CEABIGR stuff - primarily creating a file of differences in max transcript counts between treatments/sexes for eventual use in Circos.

  • Pub-a-thon.

  • 16s pipelines are still running! Mox job actually died a little after 1 day of running due a mistake I made in variable naming. Ugh. Restarted late tonight.


20221026

  • The 16s pipeline was still running after 24hrs. Decided this was too long, so killed it.

    • Ran Linda Rhodes’ 16s pipeline with the reduced 138.99 515-806 primer regions. Should help things move a bit faster.
  • Decided to install QIIME2 conda environment on Mox to see if we can speed the pipeline up.

    • Ran a job on Mox with the reduced 138.99 515-806 primer regions to see if this would finish a bit quicker… Still running many hours later…

20221025

  • Ran Linda Rhodes’ 16s pipeline with the “default” 138.99 refseqs/taxonomy. Still running…

20221024

  • Lab meeting

  • Oyster gene expression meeting (had to leave early due to contractors showing up)

  • Re-ran Linda Rhodes 16s pipeline with “new” MiSeq data.

    • Used her original SILVA refseq and taxonomy files.

    • Took hours to run on my laptop.

    • Success!! Taxa barplot actually has a majority of reads in each of the samples assigned to Bacteria!!

    • Will now test the SILVA 138.99 refseq and taxonomy files that I generated (followed the QIIME2 guide).

    • Created a GitHub repo for storing/updating various files/notebooks associated with this project.


20221021

  • Dungeness crab genome annotation meeting with NOAA people (Krista, Laura, Mac).

  • Met with Linda to discuss weird results.

    • She’s retiring at the end of the month, but will continue working on personal computer.

    • She will provide data known to have generated classifications using the pipeline.

    • She’ll send me here GitHub username so I can establish a repo to simplify data sharing.

    • I’ll schedule recurring meetings to help keep me on task.

  • Lotterhos Crassostrea virginica (Eastern oyster) meeting.


20221020

  • Continued to work on Linda’s stuff. Tested her original ref seqs/taxonomy files, but got virtually same results as updated SILVA database/taxonomy (i.e. all samples have no assigned taxonomies)…

20221019

  • Began to revist Linda Rhode’s stuff after negelecting it for an entire month??!! Whoa! I literally thought it had only been a couple of weeks… Yeesh.

20221018

  • Took day off

20221017

  • Read Ch. 5 of “The Disordered Cosmos”

  • Lab meeting - discussed Ch.5 of “The Disordered Cosmos”.

  • Continued the code/data migration from 2018_L18-adult-methylation repo to CEABIGR repo…


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20221013

20221012

  • Continued the code/data migration from 2018_L18-adult-methylation repo to CEABIGR repo…

  • Spoke with Matt regarding RNAsequencing options/considerations for M.trossolus transcriptome.


20221011

  • Worked a a lot on CEABIGR data.

    • Reviewing predominant isoform data, to help clarify some questions Yaamini had.

    • Working on Circos plots; specifically to try to generate something “pretty” for Yaamini to use in her talk at EPIMAR tomorrow.

    • Migrating, and updating, code/data from 2018_L18-adult-methylation repo to CEABIGR repo. Annoying trying to keep track of which scripts/code is in which repo…


20221006

  • Pub-a-thon

  • Continued reorganization of Circos directories within the CEABIGR repo.

  • Dealt with weird computer issues throughout the day (VMware Player kept freezing over and over). Potentially resolved by reducing number of CPUs that VM can use?


20221005

  • Lab cleanup extravaganza

    • Installed 2nd gas cylinder bracket in FTR 213

    • Cleaned up my computer area.

    • Cleaned up my old office.

    • Moved Brent’s stuff to FTR 228.

    • Moved Friedman qPCR machine to FTR 228.

    • Helped “clean” up MAR cold room (watched Steven sweep).


20221004

  • Lab cleanup extravaganza

    • Cleaned out 213 4oC fridge

    • Restored T21 table top centrifuge sign up sheet

    • Moved NOAA/Jensen crab bins to FTR 228

    • Evaluated middle freezer in -80oC room

    • Fixed FRT 209 printer (ethernet connection had to be enabled in printer settings, despite cable being plugged in).

    • Cleaned my bench.


20221003

  • Day off