Author Archives: rpg

Perhaps all these difference splice variants don’t mean anything? A Darwinian nightmare, from which we need another 15 million years to wake? Am I doomed forever, released only by the endless Sleep, to search for patterns where there are only … Continue reading →

Ian York is approaching the 1.0 release of XPlasMap . He’s actively soliciting bug reports and feature requests. Go to it, team.

I want to work on TWINKLE . I don’t care what it does, I just love the name.

Elsewhere on the internets I’ve been reading about what sort of music people listen to in the lab. Back in Cambridge we used to have about 8 solid days’ worth of music in iTunes, as well as access to everyone … Continue reading →

I had a cheap laugh at an anonymous sub-editor’s expense the other day, and the inestimable Jenny quite rightly pointed out to me that editing, subediting and copyediting are actually high-pressure jobs, and mistakes get made (Rohn, J., personal communication). … Continue reading →

A paper from our lab has gone online in a certain journal (unrelated to NPG). There’s a rather odd footnote attached to the second author’s name: You won’t have much luck obtaining a ‘Plant Homeodomain Fellowship’: the first author tells … Continue reading →

The Honours Students look younger than ever this year. And they got better sandwiches at their induction than we ever do. Humph.

Ye gods and little fishes. Alethea writes about the latest in personalized gene self-therapy, that wouldn’t be so bad, except . . . it’s self-healing . In the same way that Wikipedia is self-healing. I’m going to hide in the … Continue reading →

Propter Doc has posted her beef (ha ha) with sandwiches. It’s not as bad as I expected; they are not so much philosophical problems but practical ones, that with attention to detail can easily be overcome. With a little effort, … Continue reading →

‘Retail Genomics’. That’s catchy. Mico is scathing about ScientificMatch.com, ScientificMatch.com–The Science of Love A premier dating service that matches you by physical chemistry and mental harmony. (I haven’t linked because the site appears to be down). ScientificMatch looks harmless enough … Continue reading →