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Nounish Prof ⌐◧-◧🎩
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Ok @six I’m on planes today so let’s do this— Inverse AMA 🔄—reply below & I’ll drop you a question.
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kevin j ?
@entropybender
lets go
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Nounish Prof ⌐◧-◧🎩
@nounishprof
GM! I have no idea what bioinfomatics is —csn you ELI5? A lil tl:dr
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kevin j ?
@entropybender
basically using technology to understand biological processes/phenomena. my focus was primarily in using software to process sequenced DNA/RNA back when I did research. your DNA sample essentially is ripped into lots of pieces, and the goal is to stitch it back together to represent the true DNA sequence.
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kevin j ?
@entropybender
so imagine your DNA is a long novel, and you put it through a shredder. using stats we can reasonably become confident in what the original novel might have been by putting the pieces together. then you can do all sorts of downstream analyses. been a while for me though, @clauswilke might give a better explanation
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Nounish Prof ⌐◧-◧🎩
@nounishprof
So interesting! I’m assuming this relates to longevity stuffed? And thanks @clauswilke for adding
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Claus Wilke
@clauswilke
I'd say any application of computational methods to study genomes. So to stay with the metaphor, if everbody's DNA is a novel you can imagine a library of such books and you can use a computer to find similar pieces of text among the books. Or count word frequencies. Etc.
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