User:Alondra Vega/Notebook/Research/2010/06/03

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In the Lab

 * We did a growth experiment.
 * We also made liquid YEPD for the cultures that we will grow next week. We made about 600mL of the media.
 * We incubated at 5:35 pm.
 * We made observations for the 30°C and the 15°C plates that were made two days ago. The 15°C plates did not have any single colonies that could be observed, thus we made no observations of those plates.
 * We also made observations for previous frowth experiments and took out the plates that were grown at 15°C on 05/27/2010.

The mathematics of it

 * Dr. Fitzpatrick made a new folder that had the codes and data separated for us. This meant that we could see the original forward simulation codes.
 * The code that we were working with was the 'general_forward_sim_function' program in Matlab.
 * We recreated the Dalhquist data file that would consist of five different worksheets.
 * 1) parameter_values (this sheet contains the weights and the thresholds(b))
 * 2) the network (this is a matrix of 1's and 0's of the genes in the network)
 * 3) degradation_rates
 * 4) production_rates (These values were obtained by assuming that the system was in equilibrium.  This means that we solved the equation P=2*degradation rates.)
 * 5) measurement_times (We want to see what this network does during these time periods.)
 * Dr. Fitzpatrick wants us to look at how sloppy our parameters are by looking at the equations given in the paper that was done for journal club.