1/2) #bioinformatics people interested in #genome alignment, has anyone tried to do "adaptive seeding throttling" where after a long run time a lastz job would go into an adaptive mode where it detects that a specific repeat is initiating too many seeds, which would trigger lastz to mask it?
I have now heard repeatedly from non-US PIs they stopped to go to American confs because the PIs there being socially exclusive and not including much anyone else in social interactions. I have also seen it, I find it disconcerting to this day.
You know you have great collaborators when they bring your own enthusiasm back at times when it has been vacillating. You know who you are :).
It is unfortunate that this has to be reminded so much to reviewers at all steps: doing this things right or at least as well as possible IS in itself a strong innovation.