Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 35

The most important type of lens is the biconvex spherical lens.

A sequence of mRNA that can actually be transcribed.

For an example, see E. Coli K-12 MG1655 operon thrLABC.

Multiple different transcription units can be produced by a single operon, see: operon vs transcription unit.

NCBI online tool to find and view all open reading frames in a given FASTA: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/orffinder/

Interesting because of the Cook-Levin theorem: if only a single NP-complete problem were in P, then all NP-complete problems would also be P!

We all know the answer for this: either false or independent.

The matrix representation of the symmetric bilinear form that is the Minkowski inner product.

Since that is a symmetric bilinear form, the associated matrix is a symmetric matrix.

By default, we will use the time negative representation unless stated otherwise:but another equivalent one is to use a time positive representation:The matrix is typically denoted by the Greek letter eta.

Conceptually the simplest mesons. All of them have neutral color charge:

However, many, many, many terrible horrors come with it:

Bought by Illumina for 600 million in 2007 for 600 million dollars.

This is one of the prime examples of Europe's decline.

Instead of trying to dominate the sequencing market and gain trillions of dollars from it, they local British early stage investors were more than happy to get a 20x return on their small initial investments, and sold out to the Americans who will then make the real profit.

And now Solexa doesn't even have its own Wikipedia page, while Illumina is set out to be the next Microsoft. What a disgrace.

Here are some good articles about the company:

Cambridge visitors can still visit the Panton Arms pub, which was the location of the legendary "hey we should talk" founders meeting, chosen due to its proximity to the chemistry department of the University of Cambridge.

In 2021 the founders were awarded the Breakthrough Prize. The third person awarded was Pascal Mayer. He was apparently at Serono Pharmaceutical Research Institute at the time of development. They do have a wiki page unlike Solexa: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serono. They paid a 700 million fine in 2005 in the United States, and sold out in 2006 to Merck for 10 billion USD.