Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Metal bands OR words that exist in the human protein FASTA sequence?


On a lighter note, I just saw this on Twitter. These are some "words" you can find in the human FASTA sequences!

I can't find MISERY, but I checked a few. ANGST looks like it shows up in at least 21 human proteins (NIST fwd FASTA was the first one I had available to check). Finally, a good reason to stop being embarrassed about that Goth period you had in high school!


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  1. Claire McWhiteFebruary 21, 2018 at 7:09 PM

    Hey, it's the back of my head! On proteomicsnews!

    Here's the link to the full bahfest event - I start at 1:32:00

    https://livestream.com/accounts/13747377/BAHfest

    Ignore the part where I flub an amino acid abbreviation, misleading and confusing a generation of biochemistry students.

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  2. BenFebruary 28, 2018 at 3:57 AM

    WHOA! I wondered who this was and if I would ever find out. Did you know it was Tweeted by one of the writers of Explosm? I think that makes you super famous, Claire! I called a bunch of people from my car to see if they wanted to look into what a conserved ANGST domain might do...sure has potential for modification....

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