Cipher cracking 2019 weekly progress

Weekly progress and questions

This is where you record your progress and ask questions. Make sure you update this every week. The deadline is every Friday evening. However, if you sometimes slip a little into the weekend (so long as you don't do it too often) we won't be too hard on your marks.

Please remember that we make use of this progress section to give you your project mark. Your mark will suffer if you don't complete this section.

Semester 1 Week 1

Azizul

1. Week 1 work done:
   • Researched about the Somerton Man case
   • Attend project briefing with Hong Gunn
   • First meeting with Zihe Wang
   • Planned a meeting with Derek
2. Goals for week 2:
   • Initiate a meeting with Prof. Derek Abbott
   • Understand what the project is about

Zihe (Peter)

1. Week 1 work done:
   • Met project partner Azizul.
   • Planned a meeting with Derek Abbott.
   • Research on the Somerton Man's case.
     • A little reading at https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-01/will-the-mystery-of-the-somerton-man-ever-be-solved/10420794
2. Goals for week 2:
   • Meeting with Derek.
   • Get to know more detail about the project.

Semester 1 Week 2

Azizul

1. Week 2 work done:
   • Attended a briefing from the lab support manager, Andrew Heathershaw
   • Meeting with Derek and Zihe
   • Briefing about bioinformatics engineering
     • DNAs, rsid, chromosomes
   • Introduction to the project wiki
     • Created 2019 wiki
     • Started exploring wiki and details of previous work done by previous students
2. Goals for week 3:
   • Start requesting for fund provided by uni to get the kit from 23andme website (https://www.23andme.com/en-int/)

Zihe (Peter)

1. Week 2 work done:
   • Briefing from the lab support manager, Andrew Heathershaw
   • Meeting with project members Derek and Azizul
   • Details about the overall project, explained by Derek
2. Goals for week 3:
   • Count the data in the given data file by Derek

Semester 1 Week 3

Azizul

1. Week 3 work done:
   • Requested fund from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering to purchase the kit from 23andme
   • Completed kit order from 23andMe
2. Goals for week 4:

Zihe (Peter)

1. Week 3 work done:
   • Counted the number of SNP for each chromosome using C++ and excel

1. Goals for week 4:

Semester 1 Week 4

Azizul

1. Week 4 work done:
   • Meeting with Derek
2. Goals for week 5:

Zihe (Peter)

1. Week 4 work done:
   • Completed generating random SNP to fill in the blanks in Somerton man's DNA file
   • Also use the homozygous pairs to fill in the blanks SNPs
2. Goals for week 5:

Semester 1 Week 5

Azizul

1. Week 5 work done:
   • Meeting with Peter to discuss about the presentation for proposal seminar
2. Goals for week 6:

Zihe (Peter)

1. Week 5 work done:
   • Meeting with Azizul regarding proposal seminar presentation
2. Goals for week 6:

Semester 1 Week 6

Azizul

1. Week 6 work done:
   • Received package (saliva collection kit) from 23andme
   • Returned the packages to 23andme to extract DNA data
   • Meeting with Derek and Peter to discuss about slides presentation
   • Completed the slides together with Peter
2. Goals for week 7:

Zihe (Peter)

1. Week 6 work done:
   • Meeting with Azizul and Derek to discuss about slides
   • Meeting with Azizul to adjust slides for proposal seminar
   • Finished the slides presentation and submitted to MyUni
2. Goals for week 7:

Semester 1 Week 7

Azizul

1. Week 7 work done:
   • Meeting with Derek and Peter
2. Goals for week 8:

Zihe (Peter)

1. Week 7 work done:
   • Received DNA data from 23andme
   • Began uploading data to GedMatch Genesis
2. Goals for week 8:
   • Developing data mining program for genetic diseases

Semester 1 Week 8

Azizul

1. Week 8 work done:
2. Goals for week 9 and mid-break:

Zihe (Peter)

1. Week 8 work done:
   • Work on genetic diseases associated with SNPs nearly done
2. Goals for week 9 and mid-break:
   • Developing program for degrading sample DNA reference file to Somerton Man's level

Semester 1 Week 9

Azizul

1. Week 9 and mid break work done:
2. Goals for week 10:

Zihe (Peter)

1. Week 9 and mid break work done:
   • Searching on genetic diseases associated with non empty SNPs has done
   • A list of genetic diseases is provided
   • Complete DNA sample 1 degraded and upload to GEDmatch
2. Goals for week 10:
   • Investigate any genetic diseases in the list is relevant to Somerton Man's characteristics

Semester 1 Week 10

Azizul

1. Week 10 work done:
2. Goals for week 11:

Zihe (Peter)

1. Week 10 work done:
   • Investigation on genetic diseases done, no results relevant to known characteristics
2. Goals for week 11:

Semester 1 Week 11

Azizul

1. Week 11 work done:
2. Goals for week 12:

Zihe (Peter)

1. Week 11 work done:
2. Goals for week 12:

Semester 1 Week 12

Azizul

1. Week 12 work done:
2. Goals for Mid Year Break:

Zihe (Peter)

1. Week 11 work done:
2. Goals for Mid Year Break:

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