(blues chord progression:A/A, A/A7, D7/A, E/A; last short verse: D7/A,
E/A)
bold=talking, strumming A chord
He came down from Stanford, this guy with the crazy hair
Feeding yeast diets is what he'd been doing there.
He visualized his microarrays with something new
He'd created his own software, he called it JavaTreeView.
"What, is this guys a biologist or a computer geek?"
"I dunno, I guess he could be both"
In the Sternberg lab he used his program to define
The cuticle collagens making up group nine.
He was searching through promoters to find a common motif,
But trying to find a consensus, well it can bring a lot of grief
"Yeah, how do you know a real motif, anyway?"
"Beats me, I think you have to have a background model or something."
But Alok, with his computer skills and a lot of ambition
He tried find a way to automate intutition
His program can help you find the shortest sequence with a function
by using a method called Maximum Clique Motif Reduction
"What's a clique, anyway? Does it have to do with those circles connected
by lines?"
"Dude, don't ask me; I have no idea. I had to get these lyrics from
Paul."
Cross a programmer and a biologist, what do you get?
Someone who's right at home with a computer or pipet?
But he does more than just science, as we can confirm
By the creation of m&m Elvis, and Blingy the Worm.
"Yeah, that thing was so cool!"
"We should enter it in the elegans meeting art show under OUR names!"
MIT, Stanford, Caltech, you've clearly made the grade,
So where do you go from here? How 'bout somewhere you get PAID!
He won a contest called Bid Tac Toe and he bought us all some beer
And now he's off to Ellington to be a software engineer.
"So do we have any parting advice for our friend?"
"Yeah, but we might have to put it in video game terms, so he can
relate."
Well, Connecticut's where the money's at, but California is warmer,
So stop hoarding all of that gold, and upgrade your armor.