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The Bioinformatics Nature[Short URL]

Bioinformatics is kind of like looking for a needle in a haystack. However, computers make it fast enough to actually get output. In general, you find one of three things:

  1. Nothing.
  2. A stack of needles. A needlestack if you like.
  3. A bunch of straight pins or knitting needles or something that looks close, but isn't.

Such is bioinformatics.

Kathy says on 2009-10-19T21:41:08-04:00:

You should provide an example of each. :)

Eddie Ma says on 2009-11-13T14:48:30-05:00:

At BIBM09, one of the speakers mentioned that we previously were looking for needles in haystacks; now that many genomes are becoming available for computational analysis, we are really looking at finding haystacks in haystacks.

Your needlestack comment reminded me of that.
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