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What I learned this week #2
I am still in the phase of my new job where I am inundated with new information every day.  Every so often I just get overwhelmed with the number of different ways to do something, whether it’s the number of tools available for the job or even the number [...]

I finally managed to get a glimpse of the big picture when it comes to fiber research. It may seem fairly obvious now but for some reason, I was too immersed in the A’s, G’s, T’s and C’s of the genetic code and hunting for their patterns, that I forgot to ask the big [...]

I’m shifting gears in moving from writing Mathematics papers to writing Bioinformatics papers. In my native tongue, namely mathematics, we tend to write in the first person plural. I don’t know the history or reasoning behind this practice, but when you read a mathematics paper in a journal, they are replete with “we”, [...]

What I learned this week #1:
Another week has transpired at my new job as a researcher at TTU and I am being inundated with all sorts of new information. For one thing, I have folks milling around behind my workstation doing all sorts of laboratory things, freezing things in liquid nitrogen (or something else [...]

ROMANCE MATHEMATICS
Smart man + smart woman = romance
Smart man + dumb woman = affair
Dumb man + smart woman = marriage
Dumb man + dumb woman = pregnancy
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OFFICE ARITHMETIC
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One of the broadest definitions of bioinformatics that I have come across was in Sorin Draghici’s book, Data Analysis Tools for DNA MicroArrays.
Def: Bioinformatics is the science of refining biological information into biological knowledge using computers.
Under the heading of bioinformatics is a wide variety of different fields of study with a lot of problems under [...]