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A set of tools for delivering personal microbiome results to individuals participating in microbiome sequencing studies.
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summary text about the project for top-level index page #78

Closed gregcaporaso closed 11 years ago

gregcaporaso commented 11 years ago

I'd also remind the students on the front page exactly what they did - How many body samples over how long of a period of time

gregcaporaso commented 11 years ago

This should go on the main index page (#73).

floresg commented 11 years ago

Will this work?

If you are visiting this website it is likely because you were one of a number of college students from the University of Colorado at Boulder, Northern Arizona University, or North Carolina State University to volunteer for the Student Microbiome Project. To refresh your memory, we asked you to collect weekly samples from your forehead, tongue, palm, armpit, and gut over the course of ten-weeks in order for us to characterize the temporal variability of your microbial communities. Due to some technical limitations, we were unable to sequence the armpit samples or all samples from individuals who turned in less than six-weeks of samples. For everyone else, you should be able to enter the unique identifier sent to your email address to view your results.

While producing this delivery system and the results presented has been a great deal of work, it is really just the beginning. Analyses of these data are ongoing and some interesting trends are beginning to emerge, but we are not yet at the publication stage. We are hoping to have the first publication resulting from this work submitted in the next several months. As things progress, we will send you periodic updates and may have new results to share with you. Once again, we are grateful for your participation and hope you learned something along the way. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at student.microbiome@gmail.com. Thank you.

gregcaporaso commented 11 years ago

Thanks @floresg - I'll get this put in place (I have a couple of minor comments on the text, but I can just work on those when I put it in place).