A few departmental mailing lists just sent out a message about the Life Sciences building losing power due to a generator test between 1 and 3 PM. I really wish we were given more advance notice about these kinds of things.

Ugh, I'm fighting off a cold today. It's nothing serious, though sometimes I would rather have a decent excuse to stay home and avoid spreading disease, as I would with a slightly more virulent infection. It doesn't really help that I've been feeling directionless in the lab lately. I think one of the plasmid stocks is mislabeled and I can't seem to get our yeast strains to mate with any decent efficiency.

Today I discovered that a plasmid I thought was one thing was, in fact, another. I suspect it was mislabeled. I also suspect that I will take the blame for not verifying its identity sooner. At least we know now.

Danielle and I visited a couple yard sales and an estate sale this morning in search of a nice desk to replace the rather unstable Ikea one she is currently using. No luck, though it was interesting to see how many strange statuettes a person can accumulate in a lifetime.

In Cytoscape, you can select a subset of nodes including all edge types between those nodes by doing the following: use a filter to select nodes by edge type, then select all nodes connected by selected edges (or Ctrl+7). Follow by selecting adjacent edges (Alt+E). This will select a subnetwork determined by the filtered edge type but including the other edges (i.e. if you'd like to determine which nodes are connected by more than one edge of differing types). Don't forget to actually create the new subnetwork using the button on the toolbar.