For Bioinformatics Humor, Follow Twitter Hashtag #altbioinf
BioMickWatson started a hilarious thread at twitter that you can follow by clicking hashtag #altbioinf -
Mick Watson ?@BioMickWatson 10h
After my shamtools tweet yesterday, I’m going to start a new hashtag: #altbioinf
For the benefit of those not using twitter, we post a few randomly chosen snippets here (not in any particular order, except :) ) -
Mick Watson ?@BioMickWatson 10h
Shamtools: software that pretends to do everything Samtools does, but actually does nothing #altbioinf
Mick Watson ?@BioMickWatson 9h
Smellvet: De Bruijn graph assembler that uses so much memory that your RAM circuits burn out, producing a curious smell #altbioinf
Robert Davey ?@froggleston 9h
Celery: vegetable genome assembler #altbioinf
Nick Loman ?@pathogenomenick 8h
n00bler: Assembler which takes input in Microsoft Word format #altbioinf
Homolog.us ?@homolog_us 1h
EWAN - a software tool to prepare cutting-edge press release for your accepted paper #altbioinf
Ewan Birney ?@ewanbirney 5h
#altbioinf is great, if a little close to the bone sometimes…
Al Jazeera Forum ?@aljazeeraforum6 5h
GeeBrowse: a genome browser tool that causes excitement when all of the tracks finally finish loading #altbioinf
Lex Nederbragt ?@lexnederbragt 1h
UNCODE, junk DNA detector #altbioinf
Keith Bradnam ?@kbradnam 2h
RESEMBL: a European bioinformatics organization that duplicates functionality of tools and services provided by EMBL #altbioinf
Keith Bradnam ?@kbradnam 5h
FASTEH: new sequence file format for Canadians #altbioinf
Keith Bradnam ?@kbradnam 6h
rm -f: new sequence compression tool to free up space #altbioinf
…gotta be ‘rm -rf’.
And here is one of our contributions -
SHOCKING - a comparative analysis of genomes of distant electric fishes