Hey, I recently came across this app that might be of help: http://www.bemyeyes.org I almost forgot about it, since I don’t have an iPhone, but after watching “erbsen auf halb 6” recently, blindness is on the back of my mind. Next time I want to watch that movie with my eyes closed. But I digress.
I’m not sure how I would feel about tutoring, since I know next to nothing about bioinformatics. I don’t even know what a microarray is or what you enrich with it. I know what DNA is and I can maybe fold a protein for you. On the other hand, I’m looking for some part-time remote way to make some money, and I like teaching and technology. Cheers, Pepijn On 19 Jan 2015, at 15:07, Guido Wesdorp <johnnydeb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hallo allen, > > Na een klein gevecht met de admin interface (waarbij ik dus verloren heb) heb > ik beloofd het onderstaand even voor iemand te posten. > > Groeten, > > Guido > > Hi, > > I am a visually impaired bioinformatics graduate student using microarray > data for my master’s thesis aimed at deciphering the mechanism by which the > yeast wild type can suppress the rise of free reactive oxygen species (ROS) > induced by caloric restriction (CR) thus extending lifespan but the Atg15 and > Erg6 knockout mutant cannot. > > Since my remaining vision is very limited I need very high magnification. > But that makes my visual field very small. Therefore I need somebody to > teach me how to use these programming environments, especially for microarray > analysis, next generation sequencing and constructing gene and pathway > interaction networks. This is very difficult for me to figure out without > assistance because Zoomtext, my magnification and text to speech software, on > which I am depending because I am almost blind, has problems reading out > aloud many programming related websites to me. And even those websites it > can read, it can only read sequentially from left to right and then from top > to bottom. Unfortunately, this way of acquiring, finding, selecting and > processing new information and answering questions is too tiresome, > exhausting, ineffective and especially way too time consuming for graduating > with a PhD in bioinformatics before my funding runs out despite being > severely limited by my visual disability. I would also need help with > writing a good literature review and applying the described techniques to my > own yeast Affymetrix microarray dataset because I cannot see well enough to > find all relevant publications on my own. > > Some examples for specific tasks I urgently need help with are: > > 1. GO enrichment analysis, e.g. learning how to use the TopGo R package to > perform statistical analysis on GO enrichments. > > 2. Analyzing and comparing the three publically available microarray > datasets that can be accessed at: > A. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE41860 > <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE41860> > B. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE38635 > <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE38635> > C. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE9217 > <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE9217> > > 3. Learning how to use the Affymetrix microarray analysis software for the > Yeast 2 and Yeast S98 chip, which can be found > athttp://www.affymetrix.com/support/technical/libraryfilesmain.affx > <http://www.affymetrix.com/support/technical/libraryfilesmain.affx> > > 4. For Cytoscape I need somebody, who can teach me how to execute the > tutorials at the following links because due to my very limited vision field > I cannot see tutorial and program interface simultaneously. > A. > http://opentutorials.cgl.ucsf.edu/index.php/Tutorial:Introduction_to_Cytoscape_3.1-part2#Importing_and_Exploring_Your_Data > > <http://opentutorials.cgl.ucsf.edu/index.php/Tutorial:Introduction_to_Cytoscape_3.1-part2#Importing_and_Exploring_Your_Data> > B. > http://opentutorials.cgl.ucsf.edu/index.php/Tutorial:Filtering_and_Editing_in_Cytoscape_3 > > <http://opentutorials.cgl.ucsf.edu/index.php/Tutorial:Filtering_and_Editing_in_Cytoscape_3> > C. > http://cytoscape.org/manual/Cytoscape2_8Manual.html#Import%20Fixed-Format%20Network%20Files > > <http://cytoscape.org/manual/Cytoscape2_8Manual.html#Import%20Fixed-Format%20Network%20Files> > D. http://wiki.cytoscape.org/Cytoscape_User_Manual/Network_Formats > <http://wiki.cytoscape.org/Cytoscape_User_Manual/Network_Formats> > > Since I am legally blind the rehab agency is giving me money to pay tutors > for this purpose. Could you please help me getting in touch regarding this > with anybody, who could potentially be interested in teaching me one on one > thus saving me time for acquiring new information and skills, which I need to > finish my thesis on time, so that I can remain eligible for funding to > continue in my bioinformatics PhD program despite being almost blind? The > tutoring can be done remotely via TeamViewer 5 and Skype. Hence, it does not > matter where my tutors are physically located. Currently I have tutors in > Croatia and UK. But since they both work full time jobs while working on > their PhD dissertation they only have very limited time to teach me online. > Could you therefore please forward this request for help to anybody, who > could potentially be interested or, who could connect me to somebody, who > might be, because my graduation and career depend on it? Who else would you > recommend me to contact regarding this? Where else could I post this because > I am in urgent need for help? > > Could you please contact me directly via email at thomas.f.ha...@gmail.com > <mailto:thomas.f.ha...@gmail.com> and/or Skype at tfh002 because my text to > speech software has problems to read out this website aloud to me? > > I thank you very much in advance for your thoughts, ideas, suggestions, > recommendations, advice, time, help, efforts and support. > > With very warm regards, > > Thomas Hahn <> > 1) > > _______________________________________________ > Python-nl mailing list > Python-nl@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-nl
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