Life of a Lab Rat

One lab's very like another/ When your head's down over your data, brother

Gosh. Cobwebs.

This weblog is primarily about life as a scientist, and not very much about the science itself (except if I think it might be useful or interesting). For the last couple of weeks I have been getting seriously to grips with an incomplete microarray data set, to see if it can inform some paper revisions.

And the thing, the crucial thing about analysing data, is that you don't much get to interact with outher people. So that whole 'life as a scientist' thing? It's not really been happening. Well, it has, obviously, but not in a way that's immediately bloggable (and you've all had enough of Perl code, yes?).

Which might explain, but doesn't excuse the relative silence here. Sorry chaps.

Tomorrow I will emerge blinking into the light and prep some RNA, thaw some cells, set up an RT-PCR and start a Western. Then it'll be back into the Pit with me to co-write a book chapter. But I shall be on the prowl for japes and jollities — so look out.

As someone else once said, better than I could: "I'll be back".