> I think it means that I don't want to work in bioinformatics, if there's such ambiguity over what seems to be a basic term. Yes, biology is a mess of excepti

> I think it means that I don't want to work in bioinformatics, if there's such ambiguity over what seems to be a basic term. Yes, biology is a mess of exceptions, "good enough" and "hey, it works". It does have its charm as well, though. One of the first things I learned from that world is that if you ask a microbiologist if something is always the case, the answer will be "Yes" if it is true more than ~80% of the time.