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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 1400798" data-attributes="member: 11697">Accession numbers don't carry any info unto themselves and at times they can be a pain to find, depending on what info about the gene they refer to you already know. I've found them to be a pain in the tail this semester.IUPAC should make a forced invasion of biology to help us out. Of course I might be biased a tad because as an undergrad I got a BS chemistry as a primary major, with a BS biology secondary to that, and then reversed directions here in grad school as I've gone into molec. biology. The lack of standardized rules in some areas is striking, especially compared to the chem side of my experience. Eh. *shrugs* I enjoy it greatly though, and not just for a near fight in the department following a departmental seminar. (Never a calm thing when the department chair says, "That was a cute little presentation, however..." after a guest speaker's talk... Was half expecting a bio geek version of mortal kombat to start).</blockquote>