New research tack

I've begun working with Dr. Peter Nagy in the Pathology department at UIHC. He's doing CGH analysis on patients who may have degenerative muscular diseases (like ALS) - he compares patient genome expression data against averaged data from "normal" genomes to find possible anomalies, and then manually examines the candidate locations identified. It works pretty well, but instead of using, say, a program to do this analysis, he's got a big honkin' Excel spreadsheet doing the work. I'm helping him to develop a Python program that will do this instead, and teaching him the language at the same time. The code I'm producing isn't very "Pythonic", but it's easy to read and understand from a beginner's standpoint, and is quite liberally commented. If everything goes as planned, Dr. Nagy will publish this and I'll get my name on the publication.