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Nounish Prof ⌐◧-◧🎩
@nounishprof
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
Relates to any topic in biology and biomedicine. People definitely do bioinformatics on butterflies. https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/article/10/6/giab041/6291117
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