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"A Florida congresswoman was so determined not to be “punked” that she hung up on the president-elect. The Miami Herald reports that Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen got a call Wednesday from a man sounding remarkably like Barack Obama. He wanted to congratulate her on her re-election and to say he was looking forward to working with her. But Ms. Ros-Lehtinen suspected it was a radio station prank, and she was not about to fall for it. She said she told the caller he sounded better than the guy on Saturday Night Live but that she was not going to be “punked.” When Mr. Obama's chief of staff called, she hung up on him, too. It took a call from a fellow congressman to convince Ms. Ros-Lehtinen the Obama call was legitimate. She said Mr. Obama laughed about it all and didn't blame her for being skeptical." - Michael Nielsen

After the Palin thing, totally understandable. - Dorothea Salo

Did it become common to call and claim to be Obama?! - Hayk

@Hayk http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... - Mr. Gunn

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The impact of next-generation sequencing technology on genetics

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Next-generation sequencing transforms today's biology

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“Boarding place to SEA”

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You mean plane, right? - Paulo Nuin

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nope, he just plops down on his place on the magic carpet - Gregory Lent

can buy one of those on Amazon? - Paulo Nuin

free 2nd day shipping with amazon prime - Deepak

I'm in Canada, no Amazon Prime for me. Can I ship to your address and you send it to me? - Paulo Nuin

Will need a big box. Hopefully can find one. Cessna? - Deepak

Sure, Cessna it is. - Paulo Nuin

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Neil Saunders posted an entry on CiteULike: neils's library [625 articles]

Prediction of kinase-specific phosphorylation sites using Conditional Random Fields.

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“What is the most useful hack you have ever written ?”

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i didn't write it: for f in *txt; do mv $f `echo $f | sed -e 's/.txt/.fa/'`;done - Jeremy Leipzig

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aptitude install nxclient - Egon Willighagen

a very short perl script called 'lst': #!/usr/bin/perl ($a,$b) = @ARGV; print join(' ',"$a".."$b"), "\n"; - Dan Gezelter

something I use almost every day: a tool I called 'verticalize': transforms a tab-delimited file into a vertical output ( just like the option -B in mysql ) - Pierre

"push label" to remember the current working directory, and then later "pop label". - Noel O'Boyle

@Noel Do you mean pushd and popd? - Chris Lasher

There was this hack I had written to parse PDB headers once which was a lifesaver. Really badly written hack too - Deepak

@Dan Have you ever heard of the Unix command 'seq'? It does the same as your hack 'lst' ;-) - Lars Juhl Jensen

seq isn't quite the same as lst. Try `seq 01 10` and `lst 01 10`. Also lst can do alpha strings like `lst a f`. I don't think seq does this. - Dan Gezelter

@Dan: seq -w 1 10 | xargs -d "\n" - Chris Lasher

Don't know about useful, but I did a horrible set of hacks so that Bioperl functions were available to a PHP-based website, via the Zend perl.so module. Why I didn't go with perl CGI, I'll never know :) - Neil Saunders

@Chis: It's always like that with me. An hour with a perl book just to save ten seconds with the man page. - Dan Gezelter

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new look GReader - I like it. - Neil Saunders

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SPOCTOPUS: A combined predictor of signal peptides and membrane protein topology.