Resource
Research-Related Tools
Datasets/Tools
Genomics: NCBI, Ensembl, UCSC Genome Browser, Genomicus, OmicsDI
Gene expression: GTEx, Tabula Muris, Medaka Omics Data Portal, SalmoBase, Xenbase
JASPAR, transcription factor.
g:profiler, ShinyGO: Gene ontology
iDEP: Runs RNAseq without coding
RCSB PDB, protein information
Papers/Grants
NMBU writitng center channel, Ten simple rules for structuring papers.
Start from scratch or bullet points. Written scratch is much better than a never-starting masterpiece in your mind.
Biorender, Phylopic, ColorHexa
Educational
NMBU-related Pages
How to train yourself as a science-minded person
Science brings humans an evidence-based perspective to improve our lives and understand nature better. Scientific research training will bring you insight and a mindset about how to think scientifically. After your graduation, you do not necessarily have to be a scientific researcher. You may become a teacher, a policymaker, or a technician in a private company, or work for wildlife conversation, or a professional administrator to support researchers, or a journalist, or perhaps an artist. However, whatever you will become, sending a science-minded person into human society is one of the greatest missions of the science community to make our society better, I believe. Based on this belief, I hope you seriously engage in your research project and try to learn as much as possible regardless of your future career. You don't have to push yourself too much or compare yourself to somebody else, but please just love your project, be sincere and careful to conduct proper research as well as enjoy learning new skill sets.
Scientific research is a series of setbacks and failures. Commonly, you may not observe expected results, or the planned algorithm does not work for your datasets. In the peer-review process of paper submission or dissertation defense, other researchers criticize your research from various viewpoints to improve and polish your research. What we can do is just to be sincere, be patient, learn a lot, and think in a broad perspective. After completing your research, you will add one page to the long-lasting history of science.
The process of scientific study is as follows:
(1) Learn existing studies, theories and observations
(2) Find an interesting research question
(3) Make a feasible and appropriate research plan to answer the question
(4) Conduct the research
(5) Present the research and discuss with other researchers to improve your research
(6) Organize your research as a thesis/paper
(7) Publish the paper in a peer-reviewed scientific journal
(8) Explain the significance of your finding to general public