Bioinformatics for Dummies? Really?

[drofmab]

I think we all know the benefit of the Dummies series:  Word for Dummies, Excel for Dummies, Resumes for Dummies.  These are all useful books.  It seems, however, that the good folks at Wiley are running out of topics to simplify -- there are now a whole series of Dummies book that amuse my simple mind:

In the If You Need to Read This, We're Already

Comments

[janey_emm]

660! That's a record low, no?

My favourite is still that woman I saw with The Complete Idiot's Guide to Clear Thinking.

[drofmab]

The Complete Idiot's Guide series is a whole other world o'fun!

- the Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Intelligent Design
('nuf said)
- the Pocket Idiot's Guide to Physics
(what's a Pocket Idiot? Where would I buy one? Why would I want one?)

660 is nearly the lowest -- 660mins is a Press Release Day. Since 660 is the numerator in all PRI calculations, a score of 660 indicates that there was 1 Press Release. We did have a day last week with no Press Releases -- Everyday Math for Dummies tells me dividing by zero is a bad thing . . . thus the PRI of "n/a"