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On day three of Science Foo Camp (scifoo) biologist Lincoln Stein (picture right) gave a presenation on what he calls "genome voyeurism", using Jim Watsons genome as an example. This session demonsrated the current and future possibilities of individuals having their own DNA sequenced, what has been called "personal genomics".

HMMs, SVMs, MCMC - interesting topics! But I have simple problems. Here is one: How do I extract some sequences from a fasta file if my a accession number are not Genbank ids themselved but other words that are still in the header?

Materials:
Hm. Pubmed won't export so many sequences from the web interface (at least I could not find a way, limit is 100) If I was a biologist, I would probably repeat the process manually 70 times to get 70 * 100 sequences. Which might have actually saved me a lot of time. But I wanted to be clever.

Some of the most interesting conversations you have at Science Foo Camp (scifoo) are in the corridors, foo bars and even the bus that shuttles between the Googleplex and the hotel...