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About Me
I am Harshil Patel from Orange County, California. I am a student at Johns Hopkins University and perusing MS in Bioinformatics. I am a Genomics Research Associate III at Ambry Genetics. I love my work as everyday is different. I look over the microarray and nextgen sequencing projects. I like the Nature(Sun, Moon and Water)and prefer being out in my free time.

Wikipedia:Five pillars
The first step in getting used to Wikipedia is to go through and under Wikipedia's Five Pillars.


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My Project
This is my first semester at JHU and as a part of my Molecular Biology Course, I have a group project. We are three in the group (Letyeus Maximus, Sonya Ridenour and Myself). Looks like we have a pretty strong team and hope to do well along with other groups in this course.Igenes (talk) 21:23, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Team

 * 1) Lutyeus Maximus
 * 2) Sonya Ridenour
 * 3) Harshil Patel