While I of course never have stupid mistakes...ahem...I have many "friends" who:
- forget to check both strands
- generate random genomic sites without avoiding masked (NNN) gaps
- confuse genome freezes and even species
but I'm sure there are some other very common pitfalls that are unique to bioinformatics programming. What are your favorites?
Staying in the office all day
good way to boost reputation.
meta: should this Q be community-wiki?
what's the mean by said generate random genomic sites without avoiding masked (NNN) gaps? more detailed? do not understand.
see this?
http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/das/hg19/dna?segment=chr1:1,10000
you wouldn't want to sample from it