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Ah, to heck with the launch date…
…let’s kick the tires a bit, shall we? I’m sure the Occam’s Typewriter admins will cut this out (geddit?) later if things need to be cleaned up pre-official-launch. Besides, every good science blogging...
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Genome sequencing, Shakespeare style
Some DNA sequence. Each column is one sample, and the four colours are those DNA “building blocks” – A, C, G and T. Our “genome” is the DNA in the cells of our body. It spends most of its time as an...
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Genome Assembly – a primer for the Shakespeare fan
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; - The Life of King Henry the Fifth, Act III, Scene 1 When last we met, I tried to use Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to help explain genome...
View ArticleSympathy or schadenfreude? – the ENCODE consortium gets the hatchet job.
A paper was published earlier this week making an extraordinary attack on the integrity of the work of the ENCODE consortium, an international group studying the human genome. Scientists don’t...
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