Thoughts on NGS, alternative splicing and what we still need to know
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6059, USA
- Corresponding author: klync{at}mail.med.upenn.edu
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Twenty-two years ago I attended my first scientific meeting: the 1993 Cold Spring Harbor RNA meeting. Although initially overwhelmed by not being able to keep up with the seemingly endless knowledge of others, I left the meeting both having fallen in love with the field of RNA and having met many people who continue to be some of my closest friends and colleagues. However, what I didn't realize at the time was that the most important thing to happen at that meeting was not the 2nd-year grad student poster I presented, or even the shaping of my career path, but rather the formalizing of the formation of the RNA Society. For though I was just learning these lessons, many others already knew that RNA is sufficiently exciting and full of unexplored mysteries to warrant a lifetime of study, and that research is both more enjoyable and more efficient when done …
