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Monday, November 28, 2005

Law's Laws

Related to the previous post - Andy Law at the Roslin Institute (which you may remember as the home of Dolly the Sheep, if nothing else) has a set of astute observations on genetic analysis programs and experiments...
Law's First Law
The first step in developing a new genetic analysis algorithm is to decide how to make the input data file format different from all pre-existing analysis data file formats.
Actually, I went to see Dolly recently (in stuffed form) at the Royal Museum in Edinburgh. It seemed like an undignified end for her: stuck in a corner behind some mouldy monkeys. Shouldn't she get a statue or something?

posted by Stew @ 12:49 PM

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At November 28, 2005 4:02 PM, Blogger RPM said...

An extension to the first law:

The second step in developing a new genetic analysis algorithm is to decide how to make the output data file format incompatible with all pre-existing analysis data file input formats.

It seems like whenever you want to take the output from one program (say, an alignment) and input it into another program (a tree building program, for example), you need to reformat the output file.

 

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