Please stop writing dilution ratios as though they were fractions

Many biologists seem to not know how to write dilution notation properly. The colon ":" and the slash "/", both have distinct and well defined meanings. People (biologists, at least) usually use the slash properly, but in many situations use the colon as if it were a slash. Please, if you mean slash, write slash. If you mean colon, write colon. Do not write colon when you actually mean slash.

Let me explain the difference:

Real Dennis Moore meals

Previously, I made a Dennis Moore memorial dinner using mostly just lupins as the ingredients. In the sketch there are actually a number of foods named those foods are: lupin soup, roast lupin, steamed lupin, braised lupin in lupin sauce, lupin in the basket with sauted lupins, lupin meringue pie, lupin sorbet.

At one time or another, I have all of those foods (except Lupin meringue pie, which I'm still working on) and present them to you here.

Highlights are the lupin sorbet (which is much better than my version of lupin ice-cream), and the lupin soup, which is also delicious.

How to cook lupins

The most important thing to remember when cooking with lupin is that lupin is a bean, and therefore behaves much like any other bean. I've written extensively about lupins in the past. In this post I summarize some of that knowledge, and give some general tips and tricks for cooking with lupins.

The Dennis Moore memorial dinner: a three course meal composed (almost) entirely of lupins

1 year, 8 months, and 16 days ago, I received my first shipment of lupins. I had a dream. That dream was to honor my hero Dennis Moore by making a three course meal composed in the greatest part possible by lupins. Today that journey has come to a successful conclusion.

Lupin chocolate chip cookies

I'm still occasionally experimenting with cooking with lupins. Today I made lupin cookies. Which, I'm happy to say, turned out fantastic! In fact after I made the first batch, I liked it so much I went ahead and immediately made another batch.

Extracting gene ontology categories using python pandas and rdflib

I've got a table I exported from Blast2GO, which associates transcript IDs with GO term IDs (an "annot" file in Blast2GO terminology). I want to separate the GO IDs by category: biological_process, cellular_component, or molecular_function. (Note: in this example I use rdflib, a faster way to do the same thing would be to use the more specialized goatools, which is probably the best GO library for python. I used rdflib because I wanted practice SPARQL)

Circle the aardvark in the back of the pickup truck

I've been working on this game for an embarrassingly long time. It's pretty much done now.
check it out at:
http://circletheaardvarkinthebackofthepickuptruck.com/

read on for more details and screen shots