About five or six months ago, I decided that I wanted to train to do a pull-up. I have never been able to do one before, but all of a sudden it was something that I wanted to do. I figured that all my climbing must have already prepared me to do pull-ups. But no! Upon trying to do one, I looked absolutely weak and pitiful. Climbing and working out a lot has also made me gain a lot of weight. Mostly muscle, so this weight does help my climbing, but still. And thus began my battle against muscle gain so I could do pull-ups.
ARB Comics!
This is an almost completely true account of me using ARB today.
Apart from discovering the button that kills people in ARB, today was the first day that I thought about the absurdity of using 3 different alignment programs to get my work done:
- I use SeaView to align my sequences and to view already-aligned sequences.
- I use Clustal primarily for its “range information” function, to trim my sequences at my conserved trim targets.
- I use ARB to import the alignments and make phylogenetic trees.
Perhaps one day, there will be one aligner program that does everything I need it to. Do you hear me, you bioinformaticists out there??
Long Filaments of Bacteria Acting as Living Electrical Cables!
Imagine this: bacteria that need a metal to put electrons onto in order to respire. It’s not too strange, really; we need oxygen to put electrons onto when we respire so in that sense it’s a similar mechanism. These bacteria just use iron or molybdenum et cetera whereas we would use oxygen when we breathe. Continue reading “Long Filaments of Bacteria Acting as Living Electrical Cables!”