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Meta-pipeline to identify transposable element insertions using next generation sequencing data
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thanks for making this #118

Closed tmcclintock closed 1 year ago

tmcclintock commented 1 year ago

Barbara McClintock was my great aunt, and inspired me to become a scientist. I stumbled on this repo while searching for some of my own work, and I just wanted to reach out and say thanks for creating and maintaining this work! Cheers!

cbergman commented 1 year ago

Thanks very much for this inspiring message Tom. Your great aunt founded the entire field of science that my lab and many others work on, so I owe her a lot. I've been a great admirer of her work for a long time, and try to enhance her legacy wherever I can. A long while back, I also named a new transpson family we discovered in Drosophila after her: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nucleotide/AF541948. Thanks again and best of luck with you future endeavors!