#Goals and Timeline

This project would involve building a tool that will allow the user to 1) upload microbial community data: a matrix of samples by species, populated by species abundance, and a text file to map metadata to samples, 2) transform the species abundance data into facial parameters, and 3) tweak some parameters on the fly.

I imagine that the minimal goal of allowing me to load abundance data and produce faces could be achieved during the course of a single quarter. Perhaps in that time, enough progress could be made to allow for a competitive grant proposal to be written. I have no idea how long it would take to develop a fully-functional tool with a GUI.