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Re:Show HN: PyGeno, a Python Package for Precision Medicine by mrestko on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @02:13PM (#11161471)
Other nerdy folks will be happy to grant that an icon is merely that and not intended to be a perfect embodiment of a molecule.
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Re:Show HN: PyGeno, a Python Package for Precision Medicine by lvs on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @02:50PM (#11161746)
Those folks lack expertise in the domain. Sequences are simply abstract representations of real molecules, and knowledge of sequence means very little without exercising effort and rigor to understand structure and function.
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