Bioinformatics Zone Report – June 2014

bioinfoThe Bioinformatics Zone was lively, with over 800 questions asked and busy live chats, even though only 5 schools registered students in the zone. All the scientists were good at answering ASK questions quickly, and Sergey, Claire, and Ian were particularly good at live chats, covering most of them. The students in this zone seemed to understand the scientists’ research better than in previous Big Data themed zones, and asked each scientist about them: they asked Sergey about programming, Ian about how genes work in the brain and Claire about genetic mutations.

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Posted on July 16, 2014 by modangela in 2014, Zone Reports. Comments Off on Bioinformatics Zone Report – June 2014

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