Comments on: Junk DNA, Junky PR http://www.starshipnivan.com/blog/?p=6978 New Words, New Worlds Sun, 19 May 2013 22:39:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Athena http://www.starshipnivan.com/blog/?p=6978&cpage=1#comment-62883 Athena Sun, 23 Sep 2012 16:33:34 +0000 http://www.starshipnivan.com/blog/?p=6978#comment-62883 And so it was, very promptly and persistently.

]]> By: Brian M http://www.starshipnivan.com/blog/?p=6978&cpage=1#comment-62844 Brian M Fri, 21 Sep 2012 01:07:30 +0000 http://www.starshipnivan.com/blog/?p=6978#comment-62844 interesting essay. when i first heard the reports I actually thought…oh oh…this could be hijacked by creationists.

]]> By: Athena http://www.starshipnivan.com/blog/?p=6978&cpage=1#comment-62831 Athena Wed, 19 Sep 2012 21:27:29 +0000 http://www.starshipnivan.com/blog/?p=6978#comment-62831 Nice extension! Must be the corrupting influence of all these biologists you spend time with… *laughs*

Funny thing is, exon implies “out” whereas intron” implies “in” — whoever came up with the terms clearly was hazy in their Hellenic.

]]> By: Caliban http://www.starshipnivan.com/blog/?p=6978&cpage=1#comment-62830 Caliban Wed, 19 Sep 2012 21:25:15 +0000 http://www.starshipnivan.com/blog/?p=6978#comment-62830 I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this, but I use the term “intron” to describe bits of my Fortran code that are not being used but are still in the file (subroutines not called, lines commented out, things that are calculated but not used). Of course, I have to explain to the non-biologists what it means, but when I do they like the term. I haven’t heard any other programmers use it, though.

]]> By: Athena http://www.starshipnivan.com/blog/?p=6978&cpage=1#comment-62828 Athena Wed, 19 Sep 2012 20:52:09 +0000 http://www.starshipnivan.com/blog/?p=6978#comment-62828 It’s extremely useful scaffolding, just like the genome sequencing was. But “miracle cures” and upsetting of “old dogma”, ixnay.

]]> By: Caliban http://www.starshipnivan.com/blog/?p=6978&cpage=1#comment-62827 Caliban Wed, 19 Sep 2012 20:42:43 +0000 http://www.starshipnivan.com/blog/?p=6978#comment-62827 Thanks for this article (although when I heard an allusion to the ENCODE results on the radio, I guessed it was a bit of hype about stuff we mostly knew about). I will have to reread, and rereread, and come back with questions.

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