Problems with Prosposal

[TenzinY]

I have to come up with mock proposal for my genetics class based on the papers we covered in class. However

all the follow up experiments I have run through have already been done. Please someone help me. I don't what

I am missing. Any ideas suggestions would be helpful. 

[Leuco]

It's sort of hard to help if we don't know the topic/papers. 

 

When I had to come up with a proposal, the best thing I found was reading the end of the papers: Sometimes they'll suggest new ideas, or say, "we don't know why this occurs."  Those are great topics for further study.  You can maybe find this throughout the body of the paper, too.  Maybe suggest a way to re-test what they tested?  Some controls you saw missing?  If you disagree with their findings, maybe find a way to test those further.

[aberrant]

I think the question here is rather simple -- are there any questions (that are still in your head) regarding this topic, after you have read through all the literature? I don't think that those papers answered every single detail regarding this topic. Otherwise, you are suggesting that this topic has been studied thoroughly and there is no reason for anyone to continue their research in the same topic.

 

You'll have to be creative regarding the "follow-up experiments", which isn't usually called as is, but rather "Alternative Strategies" or Future Direction. You can certainly redo some of the experiments, as Leuco suggested, but typically if those papers were published in a reputable peer-reviewed journal, then there's not much to "fix" or elaborate about. As you may also aware that there should be tons of data in the supplementary information, that probably covers most of the things that they need to answer their specific questions.