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  • Think of it like being allergic.

    O types are allergic to everything. If they see an A or a B or both, they’ll have a reaction.

    A types are allergic to B. They have A riding along on their blood cells. Good times.

    Similarly, B types are allergic to A.

    AB abides all types.

    So if you think of the reverse when donating blood, O types, since they’re allergic to all types don’t have any problems giving their blood since there’s nothing for others to be allergic to. AB types are filthy and full of stuff others are allergic to, so they can only really share amongst themselves.

    There’s also +/- as an added complication.

    This enzyme sounds pretty good as it’ll just strip the stuff people could be allergic to. Put some AB blood in with the enzyme and you essentially get O blood anyone can use.

    I secretly think your question was about a method of assassination. Receiving the antigens alone might not be a problem so much, but usually they’re attached to red blood cells which your immune system will start fighting. Not good to have your body fight your blood.







  • I’m a bioinformatician. The problem with using bioinformatics software here is that the input or output data size is huge for most tasks, which makes submitting jobs off site much more difficult.

    Bacterial genome assembly isn’t too bad though. I use Nanopore sequencing data and the input is usually on the order of a few gigabytes per task for an output file of a few megabytes. (pulling numbers outta my butt, but shouldn’t be too far off) But the multiplying this by 48 or 96 which is the number of samples out machine can run all at the same time and you’re getting into hundreds of gigabytes for input data. It’s just tough to manage this with cloud services.

    But if you go simpler, you could offer a BLAST server. You just need to host your own database and accept queries. Not sure if you can split it into smaller tasks though. If you segment the main database your p-value results will change.


  • Yeah, I’m up for this. It sounds like it is time to get into Rust. Never done a reading club before and I haven’t heard about the main session. This would be Mondays at noon for me which works out pretty well. Would prefer just a regular schedule instead of an accelerated schedule though.

    This doesn’t look like a “read a section of the book and talk about it during the meeting” type of book club. You’ll essentially read though the section that week and we’ll do exercises together? Is that the idea?