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| bio | website | standage.public.iastate.edu |
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| location | Bloomington, IN | |
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Husband, father, graduate student, aspiring scientist, avid programmer, amateur technophile, flipper of pancakes, and baker of biscuits.
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May 3 |
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Do forever-living organisms exist? Umm, that was supposed to be a joke... |
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May 2 |
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Do forever-living organisms exist? If you're referring to the elves of Middle Earth, I'm sorry no they do not exist. |
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May 2 |
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Do marine deep sea life forms exhibit circadian rhythms? If so, what entrains them? This, IMHO, is an excellent question. |
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Mar 20 |
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Why is that all the animals can swim in water without learning to swim but humans cannot? Can you back up the assertion that all mammals can swim without being taught? |
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Mar 1 |
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How do amino acids become attached to tRNA? @ohcanada, sorry for blowing off your suggested edit. I should have given the original question and your suggestion more consideration. |
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Dec 14 |
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Why does the cold make us sick? This is a comment based on anecdote, so I don't feel comfortable listing it as an answer. But one explanation I have heard is that much of the sickness we see during the colder season(s) is not the result of our bodies actually being in the cold, but the result of spending more time indoors sharing each other's germs rather than being outdoors in the fresh air. |
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Dec 1 |
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3D models of adult male brain in the Blender software? Any open-sourced version for research? <childishness>Am I the only one who initially (mis)read "adult male brain in a blender"? :)</childishness> |
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Nov 29 |
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Comparative cost of RNA-seq vs sequencing full length cDNAs "Do you have a specific goal?" The PI of this genome project is primarily interested in the intersection of evolution, genomics, and behavior, and uses several species of social insects as model organisms for these subjects. |
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Nov 29 |
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Comparative cost of RNA-seq vs sequencing full length cDNAs "What kind of organism?" It's eukaryotic, a social insect to be precise. "Is there a good existing reference genome for you organism?" As I said, this is a non-model species, so I am the one assembling the genome. I don't know what your criteria are for a "good" genome: no physical mapping, gap filling, etc has been done yet, but the assembled sequence is close to the expected genome size and preliminary annotations have identified about the number of genes we would expect (perhaps a little bit less). |
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Nov 29 |
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Would two species of yeast with similar genome sizes have the same number of genes or chromosomes? I'm doubtful regarding your premise. See my related comment on this thread. |
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Nov 15 |
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Could a fetus properly develop in micro/zero-gravity? Let me just say, it would be awesome to be the first scientist to breed mice in space. Just sayin... |
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Sep 20 |
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Transcript(omics) terminology: cDNAs, ESTs, RNA-seq, etc When I said "short reads", I was referring in that case to RNAseq reads. Of course, in general short reads can be genomic (if you're sequencing the genome) or transcriptomic (if you're doing RNAseq analysis or something similar). |
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Sep 20 |
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In the vacuum of space would death be instantaneous? "While explosive decompression has never been tested on humans..." Love it! |
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Sep 20 |
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In the vacuum of space would death be instantaneous? Sounds like a perfect candidate for what-if.xkcd.com! :) |
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Sep 19 |
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Transcript(omics) terminology: cDNAs, ESTs, RNA-seq, etc Ok, perhaps my use of "often" is biased by my own experience. I am working on genome annotation, and both the Maker annotation pipeline and some of our in-house workflows require RNA-seq data to be assembled before they can be used as evidence when predicting gene models. I understand of course when mapping short reads to a genome or quantifying gene expression, assembly is not a prerequisite. |
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Sep 18 |
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Foveal ganglion cell density (Tay-Sachs Disease) +1 This appears to be an excellent and thorough answer, although it is a lot of material to post without citing any primary literature. |
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Sep 16 |
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Why are we using upper teeth and lower lip on labiodental sounds? I wanted to suggest the slight overbite, but had no supporting information. Great answer! |
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Sep 16 |
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Does DNA contain information beyond protein synthesis? Excellent question. Welcome to Biology.SE! |
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Sep 14 |
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Are prions an important driver in evolution? @aland Thanks for your effort to improve the quality of citations in the questions and answers on this site. You may be interested in this thread in the meta regarding the best location for complete/verbose references. |
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Sep 7 |
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What distinguishes “coding” and “noncoding” DNA from each other? @hippietrail Agreed. A lot of what is sometimes called "non-coding DNA" indeed encodes something...just not a protein! We're definitely going to have to revisit our terminology as a community, but that is a slooooow process. Case in point: "junk DNA" is still commonly used. :-/ |
