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Fumbas Lifesong
http://www.fumbani.blogspot.com
This is a weblog on Malawi, the USA and everything in between. Black is for the people of the continent of Africa. The Rising Sun represents the dawn of hope and freedom for the whole Continent of Africa.Red represents the blood of the martyrs of African freedom.Green represents the ever green nature of Malawi.Proudly Malawian!
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Papers & Presentations
The end of the beginning.... Fumbani Chibaka1, Summer Intern 2009, Research Center for Genetic Medicine, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington DC 20010, USA.1Junior Student, BSc Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, BA Computer Science, ...
DNA Sequencing II (ABI Prism 310 Genetic Analyzer)
The last kick of a dying horse. At the moment, I’m racing against time to collect nucleotide sequence data for my internship project. This data will make possible further research in the detection of a mutation (most probably a SNP) that leads to s...
Calculating RNA Expression Fold Change Values (Another MATLAB® application)
After a hectic weekend, it was a little bit relieving to get into the Geek-mode on a monday morning [instead of going into the in-vitro mode]. At least, programming is less frustrating than wet lab tasks which always have strange terms in the protoco...
DNA Sequencing
I was dead wrong thinking that I was done with the in-silico part of my project. After using high dimensional computational analysis [Visda®] to perform a hierarchical clustering on the data that was collected from the micro-array scanner, it was sh...
My Cherished Cubicle
With less than three weeks of interning left, I cannot shrug off retrospecting the fave moments that I have had at the Childrens Hospital . After spending a weekend in Pennsylvania where I had to move my stuff to fall housing [Quarry Suites!], I reck...
Genious MIT Broad Institute GenePattern [.gct file format]
Hahaha... I just got rescued by a group of benevolent MIT nerds! After hours and hours of intensive internet searching, I finally found a free tool that will help me analyse the muscular dystrophy microarray data. The tool that I chanced upon is call...

