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30 April 2014 |
de Bruijn graph
I just now tagged de Bruijn graph with an expert-attention-needed tag. The usage in genomics appears to be in conflict with the WP article; WP describes what appears to be a complete cyclic graph, whereas genomics appears to use cyclic graphs that are not complete. See talk page there. Crudely, "I get it" but the lack of precision is painful. 67.198.37.16 (talk) 03:31, 29 April 2025 (UTC)
Ancient West Eurasians
Hi, I see we have Ancient East Eurasians and Ancient North Eurasian but no Ancient West Eurasians. Seems like quite a big gap, there's plenty of sources on it Kowal2701 (talk) 21:31, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Proposed to remove category Laboratory rodents from category Molecular genetics
I proposed to remove Category:Laboratory rodents from its current parent categories Category:Molecular neuroscience and Category:Molecular genetics. Please discuss at Category talk:Laboratory rodents. Ion Soggo (talk) 01:58, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
Question about Reprogramming history
Hey all, I had a quick question before I made a change to an important biology article. A while back, I made the biography for Mary Clutter. Her research history involved her doing work in the 1960's that would later end up falling into the yet to be coined subject of Reprogramming. Now, the history section of the latter article claims that John Gurdon was the first person to showcase the subject in a 1962 publication on animal cells. Meanwhile, in 1961, Clutter published research showcasing the conversion of phloem cells in plants into xylem cells using hormonal applications.
Would this not count as a successful representation of reprogramming and prior to Gurdon's work? I was thinking I need to update that history section to add Clutter and reframe Gurdon's work as the first such application in animal cells. I notice our reprogramming article seems to largely discuss only mammals though (despite Gurdon's work even being on frogs), but that might just be our article not properly discussing the breadth of the subject in the first place. But what do y'all think? SilverserenC 23:07, 12 June 2026 (UTC)
RFC
See Talk:Genetic_studies_of_Jews#RFC:_Should_Livni_and_Skorecki_2025_be_included? Andre🚐 18:29, 6 July 2026 (UTC)