Final Project
Final Project Materials
Final Project Materials will be made available here as well as Brightspace.
Final Project Overview PowerPoint - January 22, 2025
Final Project Guidelines PDF - January 22, 2025
Past Final Project Submissions
Below are examples of final project submissions from previous years. Please note that the guidelines and rubric have changed for Spring 2025—these examples are provided only for general reference. They are intended to illustrate the green, blue, and black trail projects, not to serve as templates for formatting or content.
Green Trail Examples
For the green trail, the goal is to recreate a figure or figure panel from a publication. In the Green Trail Example #1, this student was able to recreate Figure 1 from Xian et al. 2022
Blue Trail Examples
For the blue trail, the goal is compare bioinformatic programs and contrast results. In the Blue Trail Example #1 & #2, the students successfully compared a genomic (STAR) vs transcriptomic (SALMON) aligner or fast-aligner (HISAT2). In Blue Trail Example #2, the students used nf-core/rnaseq to compare multiple aligners at once.
Black Trail Examples
For the black trail, the goal is to test an original hypothesis and to generate results not seen in the published manuscript. The powerpoint presentation given by the student for Black Trail Example #1 are provided here. Please note that all of these analysis contained multiple parts since the students did multiple pairwise comparisons.