On January 23, 2008 12:50:38 pm Randall R Schulz wrote:
How do you come to be doing this work in the astronomy department??
hmm... I don't even know! :-) Biophysics is pretty good in here too, both theoretical and experimenal.
Dave is right, of course (though I'm not sure I think the choice was all that appropriate), genomics folks use BLAST. But the field is moving fast, so you need to keep on top of the developments. E.g., BLAT does what BLAST does, but claims to be 50 times faster (not too suprising, given the simple-minded representation it uses and the fact that it's written in Perl).
I'm in theory of computational physics in soft condensed matter. The thing I'm working on now is mc simulations of polymer chain adsorbed on the structured surface (ultimately we want to look at the adsorption on flexible membranes of two polymer chains). It's not much "bio" there, we just take biological object and look from the "physical point of view". So for example polymer is just a self-avoiding random walk (depends on the model, tho). BLAST is mostly for genomics stuff right? -- Sergey Mkrtchyan, PhD Student @ Department of Physics & Astronomy, Faculty of Science, University of Waterloo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org