Notes from the Biomass

The observation that the selector sequences are complementary to the docking site occurred through a combination of staring at the sequences for months and sheer luck.

Nice final words for the methods section of a pure bioinformatics, single author Cell paper on DSCAM, the enigmatic gene that codes for 38,016 potential proteins via alternative splicing.
[Pubmed, Cell]

To many younger scientists the review process appears as an heavily biased, unfair process played by a set of clandestine rules (and established scientists feel the same way but rather play Dr. Seen-it-all). In the current issue of EMBO Journal, Pernille Rørth, its current executive editor presents a detailed, personal view of his her work and challenges to it such as full time editors vs part time editors. Recommended, even if EMBO Journal is not your target journal for submissions.