Drive-by Posting: Kafka Meets Krebs

[turnberryknkn]

Am attempting to manually slot a list of dozens of enzyme genes into their places in biochemical pathways (chart here) so can try to understand patterns in the metabolic pathways controlled by these genes

Comments

[silmaril]

In your future, Padawan, I see a lot of copy-pasting into emacs or text-editor-of-choice, and then a lot of global search and replaces.

[turnberryknkn]

Alas --

• Many of the data sources I have to use aren't text at all but pathway images. like that in the link above, and worse yet
  
• Many of these images are in *books* [1].
  

Now, I've been told emacs can do many things. If it can covert images in a textbook into computer text, I would be very happy. And somewhat frightened. :-)

[1] My god, I'm actually using books! When was the last time I did that in lab? :-)

[turnberryknkn]

Hell, I'm even poring over the Krebs Cycle -- which probably makes me the only MD/PhD in the entire program who has *ever* had to use that piece of information after the end of the USMLE Step I Basic Sciences licencing exam -- I am *so* seriously going retro this evening...

What's next? Manuscripts by candlelight? :-)

[texas_tiger]

Hey, I remember the Krebs cycle. Man those were the good old days. We danced, we ate, we metabolized...good times, man, good times.

[texas_tiger]

And here I thought you were about to say that you'd made the final breakthrough in engineering a human into becoming a cockroach. Silly me.

[anlon]

Yeah, I'm all, "do cockroaches have the Krebs cycle???"

[texas_tiger]

IIRC, they might well have it.

[mooneysmith]

And I maintain my postulation that biochemistry was the class spawned by the devil himself to make all of us medical students realize that we really wanted to flip burgers or something. And no, I plan to close that chapter of my life the afternoon after Step 1.

[prophetkristy]

Oh, my gosh, I *so* feel that pain.

How about that habit/tradition/whatever of naming the gene after the *mutant* phenotype? The damned "white" gene still kicks my little mental butt. Every. single. time.