Waht you call major/minor genes is the probably the reason why this number is so. Think of it as 25K different lego blocks and you can combine them to do whatever...
(I know that's not exactly right, but then again, but you get my drift).
I think this has to do a lot with the fact that at many universities, Macs have ruled till now. They used to be easier to use and more software was available for them (Especially in Biology). Most Biology graduates will prefer Macs since that is what they used in Grad School, etc.
This is probably just a matter of the market that the study used...
The importance of this, if it holds out in other organisms, is that we usually look for an "Open Reading Frame (ORF)" when identifying many new genes... this ORF is defined as a stretch of Amino Acids (coded by DNA) without any Stop codons (there are three stop codons (three letter triplet)) As soon as we see a stop codon, we usually stop. IF this is indeed a new amino acid coded (sometimes) by one of these stop codons, we will have to look back at how we call genes. Some of the genes may be longer than we think.
However, this is probably a very, very rare occurence and it could be that this only happens in a small subset of organims, meaning that it will have no effect on Humans or most other relevant "model systems"
I signed up with Yahoo many, many years ago, hence my first name is my userid... You have no idea how many useless idiots send email to my name thinking the have someone else.
I have resorted to filtering all email from specific countries to the trash (mexico comes to mind), but that didnt work. Now I have to filter anything that does not have a specific word on the subject line to the trash, and I only give that code to some people.
Even so, yahoo mail isnt worth it... for that amount of money... You might as well go to hostsave, get a domain for what? 7 bucks a month and have all emails forward to your current inbox...
I always liked the record keeping as done in the biotech area... Every scientist has a lab notebook (offline) where references are made to everything that was done (and where things can be found).
I'm always suspect of documentation and record keeping that is 100% digital. If the notebooks are witnessed and microfilmed, there will never be a question on when the work was done.
If notes about how things are done are kept on a notebook like that, it is a lot easier to go back and figure out what was done and how it was implemented when it comes time to writing real documentation. This does not address the inprogress documentation, but you should not forget about the tracking aspects. (CVS is good, but it could be falsified easier than a notebook I would think).
Don't get me wrong, I hate doing this... but it is a good idea:)
I'm quite concerned now that this will impact the quality of the sound if you use the digital output of the CD to go directly to your Amp...
They are assuming everyone is going to convert to analog before amplifying... This will piss off the audiophiles...
(I hope I'm wrong, but from the descriptions, this is what will happen:)
BA
All they are getting is the rights to the information... They want to find instances where you can clearly see a difference between good and disease... then they can use that information to pinpoint the genes responsible for that disease (only for those that happen in the tongan community, and that are based on genetics).
The company can then work on that gene directly in other systems to find drugs to either fix the problem or bypass it. They do not own anybody... in fact, all they are collecting is information, which is useless outside of context...
The hardest part of human genetics is in pinpointing exactly what genes are responsible for what... this is the best way to do it. Hopefully you'll see the fruits of this research in 10 years, and live 10 years longer and healthier because of this:)
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I guess that depends on your time zone...
Well, technically, the term "Black Hole" would not be refering to your stomach, but somewhere a bit downstream from that...
Ok, so you saw the same stargate episode I did...
Waht you call major/minor genes is the probably the reason why this number is so. Think of it as 25K different lego blocks and you can combine them to do whatever...
(I know that's not exactly right, but then again, but you get my drift).
High Def Porn!!!
I think this has to do a lot with the fact that at many universities, Macs have ruled till now. They used to be easier to use and more software was available for them (Especially in Biology). Most Biology graduates will prefer Macs since that is what they used in Grad School, etc.
This is probably just a matter of the market that the study used...
ON
"I think the keyboard is pretty cool. If they wacked another $150 off the price and made it in b&w, I'd buy it tomorrow"
:)
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Did you see the Treo 180? that's exactly what you described... hope you enjoy it this afternoon
Hmm... I wonder how they got dirt and the like to such high density... did they mean Terabit?
The importance of this, if it holds out in other organisms, is that we usually look for an "Open Reading Frame (ORF)" when identifying many new genes... this ORF is defined as a stretch of Amino Acids (coded by DNA) without any Stop codons (there are three stop codons (three letter triplet)) As soon as we see a stop codon, we usually stop. IF this is indeed a new amino acid coded (sometimes) by one of these stop codons, we will have to look back at how we call genes. Some of the genes may be longer than we think.
:)
However, this is probably a very, very rare occurence and it could be that this only happens in a small subset of organims, meaning that it will have no effect on Humans or most other relevant "model systems"
Nonetheless, this is very cool
They should have grandfathered all users who had registered by a specific time.
Changing (or announcing) policies like that should be done with much more care than what they did.
I signed up with Yahoo many, many years ago, hence my first name is my userid... You have no idea how many useless idiots send email to my name thinking the have someone else.
I have resorted to filtering all email from specific countries to the trash (mexico comes to mind), but that didnt work. Now I have to filter anything that does not have a specific word on the subject line to the trash, and I only give that code to some people.
Even so, yahoo mail isnt worth it... for that amount of money... You might as well go to hostsave, get a domain for what? 7 bucks a month and have all emails forward to your current inbox...
I always liked the record keeping as done in the biotech area... Every scientist has a lab notebook (offline) where references are made to everything that was done (and where things can be found).
:)
I'm always suspect of documentation and record keeping that is 100% digital. If the notebooks are witnessed and microfilmed, there will never be a question on when the work was done.
If notes about how things are done are kept on a notebook like that, it is a lot easier to go back and figure out what was done and how it was implemented when it comes time to writing real documentation. This does not address the inprogress documentation, but you should not forget about the tracking aspects. (CVS is good, but it could be falsified easier than a notebook I would think).
Don't get me wrong, I hate doing this... but it is a good idea
DrArt
My wife made me stop taping the two shows just in case that same thing happened...
I feel your pain
Well, if it was a male bear, you could add *one* extra port...
I'm quite concerned now that this will impact the quality of the sound if you use the digital output of the CD to go directly to your Amp... They are assuming everyone is going to convert to analog before amplifying... This will piss off the audiophiles... (I hope I'm wrong, but from the descriptions, this is what will happen :)
BA
The number is indeed wrong... It is about 118Mb...
The company can then work on that gene directly in other systems to find drugs to either fix the problem or bypass it. They do not own anybody... in fact, all they are collecting is information, which is useless outside of context...
The hardest part of human genetics is in pinpointing exactly what genes are responsible for what... this is the best way to do it. Hopefully you'll see the fruits of this research in 10 years, and live 10 years longer and healthier because of this :)
Ba.