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   by epgui 6y ago

   Biochemist here, this is correct. This falls under "bioinformatics" or "computational biology". Most biochemists are more focused on the "wet lab" part of the job, and less on the in silico fun stuff.
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   by epgui 6y ago

   1. The key to this is understanding that the reads or sequences are long, and the slicing happens at somewhat random locations, such that your reads all overlap with each other (of course in reality it's more complicated than that, due
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   by epgui 6y ago

   I think if 2020 should have taught us anything, it's that people have a very loose relationship with proper science. I think you may be over-estimating people's abilities and attitudes... Consider yourself lucky to have such a gre
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   by epgui 6y ago

   No, you're right, but I suppose in the grand scheme of things, I was alluding to the fact that in this case (and in many other cases) we do have incomplete and imperfect prior knowledge, but prior knowledge nonetheless, which would all
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   by epgui 6y ago

   It's not as simple as chemical = good or bad. The principle behind modifying the gut microbiome to achieve good outcomes requires the intestinal flora to change: that means, for example, that some bacteria must die and some bacteria mu
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   by epgui 6y ago

   While inflammations and even frank ulceration are painful, you can live your life with IBD while still enjoying very spicy food, for the same reason that you can enjoy spicy food when you're used to it. There's a good reason to th
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   Scientific journal Nature voices support for Biden after NEJM last week(nature.com)

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   by epgui 6y ago

   I may not be explaining this well... But it's very effective at dissolving or softening asphalt, and so it's used to compact the material and finish it into a smooth surface for final rolling/compaction.
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   by epgui 6y ago

   Having worked in road construction, I can say that the amount of diesel fuel that gets sprayed all over the thing during rolling/compaction is abject. At least in Canada, if you spill a liter of anything on the ground you're suppo
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    by epgui 6y ago

    Location: Vancouver, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: React, JS, TS, ES6, ES7, ES8, Python, scipy, scikit-learn, tensorflow, R, bioconductor, Stan, Ruby on Rails (RoR), HTML/CSS, git, bayesian st