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by gravelc 8y ago
Well that's depressing - Queensland currently sitting at 3rd last. Given our agriculture is also a massive emitter (beef cattle the biggest earner), we are really not pulling our weight.
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by gravelc 8y ago
Neither - they are talking plasmids, which are a precursor to both. Plasmids are circular DNA that are used in cloning. Cloning is the step-by-step process by which a construct is engineered (e.g. promoter and gene sequence placed in the
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by gravelc 8y ago
>The 'oldest currently active international sports competition' is actually the annual hockey game between the Royal Military College (Canada), and Westpoint - or so I'm told. International cricket pre-dates that. The fir
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by gravelc 8y ago
I had a molecular biology research background before switching to bioinformatics via a Masters degree some time ago. The degree involved subjects that teach tools, and other subjects that teach programming fundamentals (with the undergrad
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by gravelc 8y ago
Who said it was harmless? I'm sure any surgery isn't without risk. The mechanism for the most obvious short-term risk is very well known - infection. For that reason alone one has to weigh the benefits and really consider whethe
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by gravelc 8y ago
Is there a causal link between the surgery and the increase in long-term disease risk, or were patients who were more likely to get the surgery (because of more severe symptoms or more frequent occurrence of infections) at greater long-term
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Waymo announces 7M miles of testing, putting it far ahead of rivals(arstechnica.com)
20 points by gravelc 8y ago|0 comments
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Discrepancies between published ratios and their reported CIs and P-vals(academic.oup.com)
1 points by gravelc 8y ago|0 comments
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by gravelc 9y ago
That's quite astonishing. Have you done the same sort of check with other password managers like LastPass? Really hope this isn't widespread.
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by gravelc 9y ago
Sequencing has errors - some in the PCR stage so not corrected by greater read depth for short reads (long reads are much more error prone). Genomes are dynamic - they change. You are looking at the progeny or regenerated plant, not the o
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by gravelc 9y ago
If you could write software that could distinguish off-target CRISPR mutations from sequencing data, you'd have quite a valuable tool. Shouldn't be too difficult if indistinguishablity is a declared myth.
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by gravelc 9y ago
That isn't really correct. If you delete a section of DNA, then the difference is that piece of DNA has been excised. Given that excision (or duplication) can occur naturally, there is no way of telling whether the change is due to C
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by gravelc 9y ago
No one who is involved in this kind of work thinks it's the solution to all environmental/production/health woes. Such technologies are however part of a holistic approach. Additionally, things like climate change (including
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by gravelc 9y ago
Imagine what food from atomic gardens would do! I suspect that many consumers would be surprised that atomic gardens and the like were and are a thing ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_gardening ). New highly direc
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by gravelc 9y ago
The reason why these kinds of food will not be regulated is fairly simple; unlike previous GMOs, there is no way to tell them apart from 'naturally' bred counterparts. A regulatory regime would have to solely rely on the develope
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by gravelc 9y ago
This is exactly my approach to bioinformatics. Python for scripting. Go for speed. Find it fairly easy to switch between the two. Really hope Go catches on more in data science. Go equivalents of numpy and matplotlib, and it would me m
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Ask HN: Which (if any) anti-virus suite has more advantages than disadvantages
3 points by gravelc 9y ago|1 comments
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by gravelc 9y ago
I'm still on ADSL2+, and even feel a little the same way. It's a rock solid 14 Mbps line speed for all hours. Was set for 2019 roll out of NBN HFC, but, quite coincidentally, noticed some guys out the front of our unit today, a
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by gravelc 9y ago
No doubt it's difficult, but what would help is to take something more than a person's Scopus index into account when picking applicants for interviews. The initial culling of hundreds of CVs to just a few is almost based solely
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by gravelc 9y ago
I always tell students in my field (molecular biology) to at the very least learn to code at a reasonable level and pick up some data science skills. Something transferable. At any given time in my department, there'd be five times th
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by gravelc 9y ago
Wow! Just installed the beta, and it's great. Waiting for the LastPass extension now before it can become a daily driver. Most of my monitors are high Hz (144 or higher), and the scrolling is definitely smoother than Chrome when ther
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International Comparison Reflects Flaws and Opportunities for U.S. Health Care(commonwealthfund.org)
1 points by gravelc 9y ago|0 comments
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by gravelc 9y ago
It does and it doesn’t. It’s entirely unclear what the new laws are hoping to achieve. PM Turnbull appears to think that companies can decrypt messages without a back door, with the only thing stopping them to date is the fact they haven’
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New Australian Laws Force Facebook, WhatsApp to Open Encrypted Messages(gizmodo.com.au)
24 points by gravelc 9y ago|6 comments
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by gravelc 9y ago
Just gave it a quick test run on a 6 million row by 8 column CSV my software produces. Fairly slow to open on an iMac, but got there in the end. Looks nice. Sorting fast. Have got an additional column called 'Rec' for some rea
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by gravelc 9y ago
Nice! No a fan of the overlay colours, but that's just personal preference.
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by gravelc 9y ago
I started coding after 40, as I needed the skill set to do my other job properly (molecular biologist). Love it, with the added advantages my job is more secure and higher paying. Don't think I'll be stopping any time soon.
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by gravelc 10y ago
Works great for bioinformatics too. I've exited the Apple world (high prices etc.), and don't miss much now. No longer have to modify Powershell to make it more Unix-like. Jupyter notebook works fine, so I'm happy. No more
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Illumina ushering in the $100 genome(statnews.com)
2 points by gravelc 10y ago|0 comments
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by gravelc 10y ago
I agree with this to a point. Obviously, genetic information can be quite informative for non-complex traits or diseases caused by variants in only 1 or a few genes. The reality is the genome isn't the complete instruction set for wha

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