Teacher "Zhu Mo" from Henan Normal University recorded a series of "popular science" videos, which are completely open to station B for everyone to watch and reference. A small part of them are 20+ "TBtools" lectures, all of which were prepared by him and his team members. Although I wrote "TBtools", it has been maintained until now. But the user experience has been unable to take into account. It is really rare that Mr. Zhu Mo and his team paid for this without asking for anything in return. This may be related to the popular science video he has been doing, so I invite him to write a manuscript with the team and read it with everyone.
- CJ-Chen Chengjie
Why do I make a popular science video?
Zhu Mo, Duan Xiao, Cai Pengkun
red and black:
Mr. Chen asked us to write about the original intention of making a public welfare popular science video. I rejected it at first. After all, I wrote less and it was unclear; if I wrote too much, it seemed hypocritical. After thinking about it, I decided to simply write it down. Maybe it can arouse everyone's desire to share and start making popular science videos. In this way, it can be regarded as a merit.
In the early stage of TBtools development, I began to pay attention to and use it . It should have been in the "primary" version in early 2019. At that time, Mr. Chen should still be a Ph.D. It is a very useful life information analysis software. Along the way, TBtools was published in MP, and now it has more and more functions and has been optimized. The citations in the article are more than 1400+, indicating that everyone uses the software and recognizes the software very high. Of course, Mr. Chen must be a sentimental person (as can be seen from the tweet), and has been updating the software for everyone to use for free.
In fact, I mainly worked on fungal diseases of plants. In the early days (when I was most passionate when I first returned to China), I took undergraduate and graduate students (Duan Xiao) to make a popular science/tutorial video on the powdery mildew identification process. My purpose was very Simple, on the one hand, I want to popularize the powdery mildew that can infect more than 10,000 kinds of plants , and on the other hand, I want everyone to understand and learn how to quickly identify fungal diseases.
Last year, Cai Pengkun came to me to start his postgraduate studies. He basically knew nothing about horticulture as an undergraduate, but we needed to do some bioinformatics analysis for our project. After reading everyone's tweets, a little bit of study and exploration basically "gnawed" the required bio-signature analysis. Because I also learned knowledge from everyone's tweets at that time, I also wanted to do some tutorials to help those who follow (especially undergraduates, graduate students, and "Xiaobai"). The main reason why we made a video is that the video can be paused and all operations are visible. You can pause or follow the video step by step, and there is basically no error. Judging from the current feedback, everyone's recognition of the video is also relatively high. . From this incident, I also found and reflected: students and friends, as long as you study hard and find the right method, you can quickly learn knowledge and grow; for teachers, we must give more care to students and teach students in accordance with their aptitude, so that they can give full play to their strengths And strive to make them "material".
Of course, another original intention of doing science popularization is because I am a state-sponsored doctoral student. After graduation, I want to contribute to the scientific research of the country, and use the knowledge I have learned to guide and help more people (mainly graduate students) (of course It seems that my guidance and help are also optional). However, due to the limitation of scientific research funds, it is possible to stop doing scientific research after 35 (34 and still have not received a green foundation/cover your face). Now you can do as much as you can with limited funds, and train as many students as you can. Let's do it . However, with only a small amount of funding in the past two years, I have published several papers on powdery mildew (in Plant Disease, Canadian Journal of Plant pathology), a paper on penicillium (in Postharvest Biology and technology), and trained a graduate student to graduate successfully. , An undergraduate student is guaranteed a postgraduate postgraduate degree (the results of other postgraduate graduate students are unknown), which is also gratifying. In the future, if there is no funding, I can teach with peace of mind and spread knowledge to undergraduates. After all, it is too difficult for young teachers to engage in scientific research, and it is difficult to obtain funds and publish articles. Just like in the previous article, the academician pointed out that it is not easy for young researchers. I thought about it, shouldn't the academician refer to the young teachers of their research group? Later, I thought about it again, since the academician didn't specify it, I should be able to count it. Thinking that the difficulties of our young researchers can be noticed by academicians, I am also secretly happy. Although now as young researchers, our funding, time and energy are not limited, but we will try to make some tutorial videos about TBtools when conditions permit, of course, it depends on whether we have the time and energy. However, Mr. Zhu's ability is limited, and it is normal that he can't do it. You don't have to look forward to it too much. . .
Well, I wrote so much without realizing it, and found that I was off topic. . . .
Below is the brief introduction and "feelings" of my students. If you have any questions while watching the video, you can ask them directly.
Duan Xiao:
"Duan Xiao, a graduate student at the School of Life Sciences of Henan Normal University, is mainly engaged in the research on powdery mildew and its biological control fungi, and strives to explore environment-friendly and human-friendly biological control agents. , a serious plant fungal disease that infects many species, chemical control can no longer meet the control of powdery mildew, so biological control is very important. For data analysis and visualization, TBtools is a mature software that is easy to understand and quick to use , simplifying data processing in experiments."
Cai Pengkun:
"For a "novice" entering the field of bioinformatics, TBtools has brought a lot of help. The functions it covers are very simple, powerful and effective, whether it is the processing of genomic information or the later mapping.
The original intention of Mr. Zhu Mo's team to make the video is to let more little whites who are new to the field of student letters avoid detours and achieve their experimental goals as soon as possible. At the same time, it is also to thank and promote the software TBtools. Although we don't have much knowledge and skills in biotechnology, we are willing to share the road we have traveled with to remove some small obstacles for everyone's scientific research.
Mr. Zhu Mo's team is committed to researching the direction of powdery mildew prevention. The green, pollution-free, efficient and non-repetitive treatment of powdery mildew is carried out through the biological control method of biocontrol bacteria. The field of bioinformatics will provide great help to the research on powdery mildew biocontrol. At this time, I was lucky enough to meet the software TBtools. If there is no TBtools software, it will take a lot of effort and time to process the data. When drawing, you need to download different software and ensure the corresponding system, not just the Windows system. Each of these steps is difficult and requires effort and money for beginners.
Therefore, we are very grateful to Dr. Chen for bringing us the TBtools software, which has provided a great help to our research on bioinformatics. "
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