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Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics 3rd Edition amzn.to/1P2WMqW #bioinformatics

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Practical Protein Bioinformatics amzn.to/20je86I

Practical Protein Bioinformatics

Practical Protein Bioinformatics

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In a public survey of the 100 most desirable jobs, bioinformatician was a close second to astronaut #bioinformatics #fact
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Bioinformatics Algorithms: An Active Learning Approach amzn.to/1P2Wq3v #bioinformatics

BIOINFORMATICS ALGORITHMS,VOL.I

This is Vol. 1 of Bioinformatics Algorithms: an Active Learning Approach, one of the first textbooks to emerge from the recent Massive Open Online Course MOOC revolution. A light hearted and analogy...

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Base qualities are called "Phred" scores in honour of Fred Sanger who developed DNA sequencing. #101bioinfofunfacts
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EBI" actually stands for "European bureau of investigation". It's a front of the EU secret service, collecting genomic info #bioinformatics
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#Bioinformatics Applications Notes have to be automatically generated by the software they describe
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They say -> 99.5% of people who cite Altschul et al have never read the paper #bioinformatics #fact
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Hidden Markov Models were initially developed to find Waldo #bioinformatics
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The 'p' in p-value actually stands for p-otentially interesting! #bioinformatics
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The SRA is the best known of the archives, and not many people know or use the MRA, the KLRA and the LRA #bioinformatics
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The EBI is an elaborate front-end to NCBI services #bioinformatics
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Over 1 billion people have searched the NCBI protein database for their own name #bioinformatics
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TopHat is named do because it was the first spliced RNA-Seq aligner, and when it worked first time, the authors shouted "Top that!"
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Good advice for nonprofits and business bit.ly/W7CdZZ

Nonprofits Use Feedback to Retain Volunteers and Increasing Donations

Nonprofits can use feedback and to grow while increasing donations and retain volunteers and helping their cause. See how

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Bowtie is named so because "it is almost impossible to tie", referring to code to avoid a "race condition" when using multiple processors
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GCG, the old bioinformatics package, was named after the authors kept high-fiving each other, shouting "good code guys!" #bioinformatics
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BLAST is so fast, the authors had to deliberately slow down the code so it doesn't overheat the servers #bioinformatics
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Good Donor Retention Tips nonprofitinformation.com/don…

Donor Retention Advice for Nonprofits

Membership organizations like museums, zoos, associations, that fundraise around a membership model, face unique challenges.

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