Off topic:What Was The Best April Fools Joke Related To Bioinformatics You Saw?
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I stumbled on the 24th chromosome pair, found by bioinformatic reanalysis of 23andme personal genetic data. Of course that meant that they had to rename the company to 24andme.

http://spittoon.23andme.com/2011/04/01/23andme-discovers-24th-chromosome-changes-name-to-24andme/

You have probably seen loads of others. I hope you can share them.

A practical aspect behind the question is that there were one or two things that I almost forwarded to other people because they didn't look weirder than what you see every day. So besides giving Biostar users a well deserved laugh the question could also prevent some embarrassment.

For this I really hoped that it was a joke, but after reading the article that is was based on I am afraid that it was not ...

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