I finally saw a bioinformatics specialist yesterday to seek advice on our project. He kept asking about stuff that was not applicable to our data set even after I explained it repeatedly over the course of nearly an hour- okay, fine, whatever.
He ended up looking up our sample type on wikipedia (argh, wikipedia) and he read it to me aloud, which has ALL OF THE INFORMATION I JUST TOLD HIM. He lingers on the part about the commonly associated genetic aberration, which is pretty much verbatim what I had told him several times before. He says that the genetic marker must be the point of our project - no way, wooooah! Better send that to Nature, dude! Great deduction.
Then he asks me if I understand what copy number means. I say yes, of course I do. He ignores me and then tells me very slowly that "we have two chromosomes, one from mom and one from dad but sometimes we have extra or missing copies..."
Wow, I'm so glad someone finally cleared that up for me after three years of genetics research. NOTE MY EFFING SARCASM.
Ha. And he'd probably ask for authorship for his contribution.
ReplyDeleteHeh. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteI want to see you post your rage too. :D
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