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ucpete

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About ucpete

I'm a computational biologist studying viral and bacterial evolution to help discover novel small molecule and biologic inhibitors of pathogenic targets with the goal of curing infectious diseases.

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    Comment #7204530

    You got it. For me, I like getting my personal and work emails pushed to my iPhone in the same place (the Mail app). Though I have the Gmail app I don't use it.

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    Comment #6978581

    https://www.clipperz.com/pricing/financial_statement/ "Fiat currencies" = Italian autocorrect? The whole thing sounds crazy -- I wonder if it's a competitor trying to sink them. Or…

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    Comment #6479782

    I was pleased to see he figured it out by the final iteration. >Fewer words

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    Comment #5646469

    Exactly. It's not clear to me whether they're only checking for SNPs in a single locus or if they can multiplex (or do whole exome). Though Oxford NanoTech is still essentially vap…

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    Comment #5641214

    In my former lab we had two.

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    Comment #5522303

    My first thoughts exactly when I saw this post. Well actually my first thought was "Doesn't OP mean Google is laying fiber in Austin? Ooooooohh I get it...". I'm happy about this -…

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    Comment #5252852

    Serious question: what took so long?!

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    Comment #5118079

    Interesting to read his note after this infamous story: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2007/06/masters-their-do...

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    Is Apple trying to run interference on Google Maps installations?

    When I searched for Google Maps in the App Store on my iPhone and my iPod, instead of the results of the search appearing, a pop-up advertisement entitled "Apple Apps" appeared and…

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    Comment #4879857

    Scroll, scroll, scroll, close window. Typically left feeling completely neutral. I've got kids and my friends are at the getting married / having kids age now as well, so my feed h…

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    Comment #4700077

    This is all really great, but my ISP and router situation is not at 100% uptime and about once a week I need to reset them both. I wouldn't be able to rely on this completely :/