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Note to moderator: Read the answerline carefully. Filigree edges in these things are disconnected rather than removed to efficiently construct them in the “meta” version of a “St. Petersburg” tool. Breakpoint graphs identify synteny (“SIN-tuh-nee”) blocks and rearrangements in these (10[1])things. (10[1]-5[1])The SPAdes (-5[1])tool builds these things using de Bruijn (“duh broyn”) graphs of k-mers for de (-5[1])novo assembly. (10[2])The program (10[2])MiniMap2 chains minimizers (-5[1])in these things to address quadratic slowdown in the Smith–Waterman (10[1])algorithm. (10[1])The Bowtie (10[2])package uses a Burrows–Wheeler transform to align these things. (10[4])Eugene Myers (10[1])helped develop a search tool for these things (10[2])called BLAST, (10[4]-5[1])and advocated (10[2]-5[2])for (10[1])a (10[2])“shotgun” (10[2]-5[1])method to map them, (10[5])which can also be done using (10[1])techniques (10[1])developed by Illumina and Sanger. (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, Celera (10[1])competed with a project (10[1])to identify the human version (10[1])of (10[1])what entities (10[3])representing (10[3])an organism’s genetic material? (10[1])■END■ (10[8])

ANSWER: genomes [accept DNA sequences or nucleic acid sequences or nucleotide sequences or genetic sequences or RNA sequences or protein sequences or polypeptide sequences; accept or DNA sequencing or RNA sequencing or protein sequencing; accept sequence alignments or alignments; accept BLAST until read; accept Human Genome Project; prompt on strings or queries or letters or words or text; prompt on DNA or RNA or genes or promoters or codons or proteins or polypeptides or nucleotides or nucleic acids by asking “what kind of data structures can be used to represent them?”]
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Summary

Florida2025-02-01Y3100%0%0%95.00
Great Lakes2025-02-01Y6100%0%17%109.50
Lower Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y5100%0%20%101.40
Midwest2025-02-01Y2100%0%0%92.50
North2025-02-01Y3100%0%0%120.67
Northeast2025-02-01Y580%0%40%124.00
Overflow2025-02-01Y5100%0%0%75.80
Pacific Northwest2025-02-01Y2100%0%50%114.50
Southeast2025-02-01Y4100%0%0%88.25
UK2025-02-01Y10100%0%30%112.30
Upper Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y8100%0%0%85.50
Upstate NY2025-02-01Y3100%0%33%117.33

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Arya KarthikOxford ABristol3810
Jonathan HuangMIT ADartmouth A39-5
David BassJohns Hopkins AGeorge Washington A3910
Lewis StrachanCambridge EWarwick A41-5
Jacob EgolDukeLiberty B53-5
Sharath NarayanNorthwestern ANotre Dame B5510
Rohan DalalGeorgia Tech CGeorgia Tech B5510
Michał GerasimiukStanford BGeorgetown B5710
Oscar DespardCambridge AManchester5710
Sophie HiggsUW AAlberta60-5
Richard NiuCornell BNYU B7010
Stan MelkumianPurdueIowa7110
Samuel LiWilliam & MaryWake Forest7310
Andy YuMaryland AMaryland B7310
Bill ZhaoFlorida BUCF C8210
Dennis YangMichigan CMichigan A8210
Rasheeq AzadUNC BVirginia Tech A8210
Adam FineChicago AIllinois A8210
Cade ReinbergerRIT ARIT B8410
Russell NipUBCUW B9210
Jerry VinokurovJohn Jay CollegeGeorge Washington B9210
Raj DoshiUCF BFlorida State A9410
Alan LeeCase Western ACarnegie Mellon A9410
Conor ThompsonIowa StateMinnesota B9410
Arjun NageswaranHarvard AUMass Boston94-5
Aum MundheRutgers AHaverford A9410
Nick SmemoeUNC DLiberty A9610
Tianyu XuGeorgia Tech AGeorgia Tech D9610
Michael WuSouthampton BCambridge C96-5
Alec RisoCornell CCornell D96-5
Biyang ZhangMichigan BMichigan D9710
Patrick BoyleNotre Dame CNorthwestern B9810
Jacob FinleyNotre Dame AGeorgetown A9810
Mason YuBrown ABrandeis B9910
Jack LewisBruin ALouisville A9910
Rahim DinaImperial AOxford B99-5
Braden BoothMissouriChicago B10310
Harris BecknerAlabama AVanderbilt A10310
Roselyn DaffinSouthampton ACambridge B10310
Ryan RosenbergNYU AHaverford B10310
Frederick Rivas-GiorgiYale AColumbia C10310
Tiffany ZhouFlorida AValencia A10910
Noah ChenColumbia BPenn B11010
Jack LengaCarnegie Mellon BKenyon115-5
Calvin BostlemanOhio State AMichigan State11510
Michael EngUNC CVirginia A11910
Eugenia TongImperial BOxford C12310
Andy HuffLSESheffield12810
Chloe ChowHarvard BBrandeis A12910
Will HuangWisconsin AWinona State13110
Jacob Hardin-BernhardtNYU CDurham13110
Eli BettingerESF ABinghamton A13110
Rohan Navaneetha RajOhio State BCase Western B13210
Elliott GomesDartmouth AMIT A13210
Linus LuuCambridge DWarwick B13210
Will ZhangTufts ABU13610
Noah DeanKenyonCarnegie Mellon B13710
Samuel MillerLiberty BDuke13710
Aaron MarchandCarletonWisconsin B13710
Anne FjeldAlbertaUW A13710
Arvin BoraghiCambridge CSouthampton B13710
Chris LevesleyWarwick ACambridge E13710
Elliot CosnettOxford BImperial A13710
Pranaav SenthilkumarCornell DCornell C13710