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| location | Marseille, France | |
| age | 32 | |
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I am a computational biologist with a background in biology, not computers. My PhD work was on gene prediction and comparative genomics but my current research is in systems biology, specifically protein-protein interaction networks.
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Mar 28 |
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Can mammals from different species reproduce? In fact, one of the many definitions of a species is that if two animals cannot reproduce, they are different species. This is kind of simplistic of course, but it is one of the definitions. |
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Mar 27 |
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Expanding the SETI initiative to seek intelligent data within DNA sequences? Unfortunately most of the highly conserved non coding material that you mention comes from viruses which are not really prime candidates for intelligence. |
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Mar 25 |
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More proteins from diet when common cold and flu? Who says antigens must be proteins? Is this true? Many will be peptides of course but surely not all antigens are proteins. Anyway, you don't build antigens, whatever pathogen has infected you does. |
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Mar 25 |
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More proteins from diet when common cold and flu? I assume you were not talking to your couch :) |
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Mar 25 |
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Are there nutritional benefits to drinking diluted urine? Wow, OK, even glucose! Though I have my doubts as to the nutritional value of glucose at 200mg/l. That's a lot of urine for very little sugar... :) |
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Mar 24 |
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Are there nutritional benefits to drinking diluted urine? Any references? Who says there are nutrients in urine? Sounds weird to me. |
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Mar 24 |
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molecular bonds of organic atoms This question is about basic chemistry, not biology. You seem to have misunderstood the concept of how chemical bonds are formed. Oxygen is no exception, it can make the two bonds needed to fill its outer shell with eight electrons. See here for more information or pick up a basic chemistry text book. Voting to close. |
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Mar 24 |
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molecular bonds of organic atoms added 526 characters in body |
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Mar 22 |
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Is there a way to measure the amount of bytes that are possible to encode in a DNA molecule? You might find this thread over at skeptics interesting. |
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Mar 21 |
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What are usable Sum formulas for Proteins? The downvote (was not cast by me) is probably because: 1) what does "nutrients" mean in this context? 2) What exactly do you need? The chemical formula you are posting could conceivably describe a small peptide but not an entire protein (unless it is a very very small one). 3) Protein sizes vary enormously, what kind of formula are you looking for? The average content in H,O,N and C in proteins? 4) Where do you get the 15-19% values? I don't see that in the page you linked to. 5) What exactly are you trying to do, why do you want this formula? |
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Mar 21 |
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Why is that all the animals can swim in water without learning to swim but humans cannot? deleted 95 characters in body |
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Mar 21 |
answered | Why is that all the animals can swim in water without learning to swim but humans cannot? |
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Mar 13 |
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Are descriptive statistics sometimes more useful than tests of significance? Of course reading BLAST e-values as p-values is wrong. e-values give the number of hits of this quality you would expect to find by chance, given the size of the hit and the size of the database (and the composition of the sequences in question, low complexity etc). They do not give the probability of finding such a hit. They are not even similar to p-values and should never be confused. |
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Mar 8 |
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What are sulphur contents of diverse biological materials (mostly plants and excrements)? Which protein? Which plant? Which part of the plant? Grown on what soil? Whose feces? After what diet? whose eggs? This question is too broad to be answerable in its curent form. |
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Mar 5 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Mar 4 |
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Types of bacteria that will kill other types of bacteria? What do you mean by types? Species? In any case, @JackAidley said it all. |
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Mar 4 |
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Does one neurotransmitter travel all the way through the nervous system? @DarkLightA some are pretty long. In a human body, they can be more than a meter in length. |
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Mar 4 |
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Serotonin - Does being aroused make you sleepy? added 2024 characters in body |
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Mar 4 |
answered | Serotonin - Does being aroused make you sleepy? |
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Mar 4 |
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Serotonin - Does being aroused make you sleepy? edited body; edited title |
