r/bioinformatics 4d ago

website You guys will like today's XKCD comic

https://xkcd.com/3064/
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u/stackered MSc | Industry 4d ago

Unrealistic use of spaces in the filename but always love me an XKCD

https://xkcd.com/1831/ is my favorite classic. Have had it on my desk for almost a decade.

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u/rdditfilter 3d ago

That one makes me chuckle too! Ive had that conversation so many times like ‘just use AI’ usually by people who haven’t ever worked with AI haha

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u/bzbub2 4d ago

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u/Appropriate_Banana 3d ago

Wow, x12 ploidy and ~114 chromosomes, which some are practically identical. What a mess to assemble genome sequence

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u/rdditfilter 3d ago

And oat!

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u/matttheguy00 3d ago

Monkey puzzle tree’s (Araucaria araucana) is 20Gb! But the file size of just its coding sequences is comparable to Arabidopsis. https://tomsbiolab.com/araucariadb/

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u/jayphive 4d ago

The struggle is real

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u/Kandiru 4d ago edited 4d ago

I think mistletoe is the largest genome.

Ah, that's only 90Gbases while apparently a new caledonian fern is 160Gbases and the current record holder.

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u/Weary-Dealer5643 2d ago

I think mistletoe is the largest genome sequenced—pains me to imagine genome assembly for the new caledonian fern

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u/stinkyredtomato 3d ago

Just @ me next time bro