I want to seq every martian for $1000 ..lol

This is pretty funny poke at the Ion Torrent (&Proton) vs MiSeq debate!

Other memorable quotes

"Now you're telling me Martians with long stretches of repeats can't be sequenced?"

I wonder if there will be a video retort from the other camp.

I used to think correlation implied causation ...

Alerted to this by 

@mbeisen

Biologist at UC Berkeley & HHMI; open access advocate and co-founder of Public Library of Science

Berkeley, CA · http://www.michaeleisen.org

How Not To Be A Bioinformatician Source Code for Biology and Medicine 2012, 7:3 doi:10.1186/1751-0473-7-3

How Not To Be A Bioinformatician

Source Code for Biology and Medicine 2012, 7:3 doi:10.1186/1751-0473-7-3

abstract 

Although published material exists about the skills required for a successful bioinformatics career, strangely enough no work to date has addressed the matter of how to excel at not being a bioinformatician. A set of basic guidelines and a code of conduct is hereby presented to re-address that imbalance for fellow-practitioners whose aim is to not to succeed in their chosen bioinformatics field. By scrupulously following these guidelines one can be sure to regress at a highly satisfactory rate.

http://www.scfbm.org/content/pdf/1751-0473-7-3.pdf


LMAO

"Be unreachable and isolated. Configure your contact email to either bounce back or

permanently set it to vacation. Miss key meetings or seminars where other colleagues may be presenting their seminal results and never, ever make any attempt at remembering their names or where they work. Reinvent the wheel. Do not keep up with the literature on current methods of research if you possibly can. "


was this even neccessary to be in the paper?

When a billion is not a billion

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/page/114

A more erudite colleague has just pointed this fact to me when I mentioned that the human genome has 3 billion base pairs...


In British English, a billion used to be equivalent to a million million (i.e. 1,000,000,000,000), while in American English it has always equated to a thousand million (i.e. 1,000,000,000).

the exponential increase in 'novel' findings

This is hilarious!

Neil Saunders, blogger at What You're Doing is Rather Desperate, posted a photo to his Twitter account last week with the newspaper-style headline style caption: "Findings Increasingly Novel, Scientists Say," which he says is meant to be a "tongue-in-cheek" look at the use of the word "novel" in the titles of papers indexed in PubMed.


Read full article at genomeweb

and Saunder's blog post 

How a programmer views the human genome

Grabbed this fantastic description on the ultimate question in the galaxy.

The genome is the source of a program to build and run a human

But: the author is not available for comment

It’s 3GB in size

In a single line

Due to constant forking, there are about 7 billion different versions

It’s full of copy-and-paste and cruft

And it’s completely undocumented

Q: How do you debug it?

 

Brilliant

I agree!

I forgot there are 7 billion versions when actually only 1000 are publicly avail for download! Lol

Author is 

Jim Stalker, the Senior Scientific Manager in charge of vertebrate resequencing informatics at the Sanger center. Grabbed off Todd Smith's post