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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Base qualities are called "Phred" scores in honour of Fred Sanger who developed DNA sequencing. #101bioinfofunfacts

EBI" actually stands for "European bureau of investigation". It's a front of the EU secret service, collecting genomic info #bioinformatics

#Bioinformatics Applications Notes have to be automatically generated by the software they describe

They say -> 99.5% of people who cite Altschul et al have never read the paper #bioinformatics #fact

Hidden Markov Models were initially developed to find Waldo #bioinformatics

The 'p' in p-value actually stands for p-otentially interesting! #bioinformatics

The SRA is the best known of the archives, and not many people know or use the MRA, the KLRA and the LRA #bioinformatics

The EBI is an elaborate front-end to NCBI services #bioinformatics

Over 1 billion people have searched the NCBI protein database for their own name #bioinformatics

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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Bowtie is named so because "it is almost impossible to tie", referring to code to avoid a "race condition" when using multiple processors

GCG, the old bioinformatics package, was named after the authors kept high-fiving each other, shouting "good code guys!" #bioinformatics

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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