April 12, 2016 at 12:42AM

Today I Learned: 1) Tip for working with dynamical system models of gene networks -- if your output doesn't look right, check your parameters. Then think about what your parameters should be. Then check them again. 2) Apparently if you steep tea in less-than-boiling water, it doesn't come out quite so bitter. I'd heard you were supposed to do this, and now I know why. 3) It is surprisingly difficult to find sequences for origins of replication. For the life of me, I can't find any repositories that will just give you the sequence, aside from a few that are on the iGEM biobricks origins of replication page. The best I've been able to do so far is BLAST a sequence that I *think* is the origin, and hope it works. Biology sucks. *sigh*