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Mar 11 |
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What is a “tool strain”? For what it is worth, she convinced me that "tool strains" and "recombinase strains" are synonyms, and that there are other, unrelated types of strains, like "reporter strains", GE-strains without recombinase, and non-GE strains which may have spontaneous diseases like A/J, or be healthy like FVB/N. Then I found examples of reporter strains having recombinase and concluded that my understanding is wrong. Still don't know whether a strain is considered a "tool strain" in the context of a certain experiment, or whether it is a property of the strain itself. |
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Mar 11 |
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What is a “tool strain”? There are no instructions. I am trying to elicit requirements from a single key user who doesn't "get" set theory. She is talking about several types of tumor models and animal strains, and when she tells me of model types A and B, she is not capable of telling me whether A is a subtype of B, B a subtype of A, both are synonyms, or unrelated. Because she is always thinking in terms of concrete data, she cannot generalize it. And when I try to pry it out with focused questions, she starts contradicting herself. Googling has helped a lot, but with the tool strains, I hit a wall. |
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Mar 11 |
awarded | Citizen Patrol |
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Mar 11 |
asked | What is a “tool strain”? |
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Oct 25 |
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