Music
Set to the tune of Major-General’s Song from the Gilbert and Sullivan opera, The Pirates of Penzance, Tom Lehrer gives us an alliterative recital of all of these members of the Periodic Table that were known at the time of his writing in 1959.
What is "The Elements".
Two complimentary nucleotides that bind together to form a ‘rung of the DNA ladder’.
What is base pair.
A genomics assay that provides the expression profiles of individual cells and is considered the gold standard for defining cell states and phenotypes.
What is scRNAseq.
A programming language for statistical computing and data visualization named after the 18th letter of the modern English alphabet.
What is "R".
A facility that provides the service in which mRNA is sequenced directly in a section of fixed tissue or cells.
What is In Situ Sequencing Core.
“The History of Everything” by the Barenaked Ladies is also known as the theme song to this CBS sitcom.
What is "The Big Bang Theory".
A solution whose pH doesn’t significantly change upon dilution or the addition of an acid or base.
What is buffer.
The technology of manufacturing microminiaturized devices containing chambers and tunnels through which fluids flow or are confined, and which is the basis of GEM formation in the 10x Genomics scRNAseq assay.
What is microfluidics.
This high-level, general-purpose programming language emphasizes code readability with the use of significant indentation, and is named after a type of nonvenomous snake found in Africa, Asia, & Australia.
What is "Python".
A form of precipitation that has a pH below 7.0 and is the basic building blocks of proteins.
What is amino acid rain.
A song by Kate and Anna McGarrigle that tells the story of the romantic courtship between two atoms, who marry and become this common compound often used for seasoning food.
What is NaCl or Sodium Chloride.
Membrane-bound immunoglobulins that recognize and bind foreign antigens, specific to the type of lymphocyte that develop and matures within the bone marrow.
What is BCR or B-cell receptor.
This is the 10x Genomics Assay that profiles gene expression and open chromatic simultaneously from the same cell.
What is the Multiome assay.
This bioinformatics toolkit for single cell genomics, is developed and maintained by the Satija Lab at NYUs New York Genome Center.
What is "Seurat".
A fat cell that’s aided in transfer onto a specialized slide for a Visium run.
What is Adipocyte-Assist.
This 1985 song by American new wave band, Oingo Boingo, is the theme song to the 1985 John Hughes film of the same name starring Anthony Michael Hall in which nerdy students are inspired by the 1931 classic Frankenstein to create a virtual woman using their computer.
What is "Weird Science"
The design and production of materials, structures, and systems that are modeled on biological entities and processes. Ex/Velcro and flight
What is biomimicry or biomimetics.
This PI is a professor of immunology in the Duke Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology whose numerous lab members have collectively produced the most libraries in the MGC, total sitting at 130 as of 4/10/24.
Who is Carolyn Coyne.
The acronym for this file type, that represents the comprehensive raw data of genome sequencing, could also be found on the pages of a comic book!
What is "BAM" or "Binary Alignment Map" file.
A cartographer who specializes in creating clustered plots of single cell sequencing data.
What is a UMAP-maker
British scientist and TV presenter, Magnus Pyke, repeatedly interjects “Science!” and delivers other lines in a deliberately caricatured mad scientist manner throughout this 1982 Thomas Dolby hit.
What is "She Blinded Me With Science".
A program w/in the Duke University Tisch Brain Tumor Center whose Vision statement is: To be a global leader in developing and applying Omics approaches to improve outcomes for brain tumor patients.
What is Brain Tumor Omics Program (BTOP).
This is the name and amount of protein supplement that is the most commonly recommended buffer for submitting single cell suspensions in for 10x Genomics assays.
What is 0.04% BSA
This is the latest build of the human reference genome, released in 2017, with the latest patch (.p14) being published in March of 2022.
What is "GRCh38".
The Slack Channel created by Karen to share kudos received by the MGC about Illumina runs.
What is Micro Array of Sunshine.