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Chapter 60 Iron-Blooded Meteor Fall
Jiangcheng University, Laboratory Building, Data Analysis Room
Hu Biao was twirling two "iron balls" in his hand, and he was displeased.
Chen Haoran walked over with a concerned look. "Junior brother, what's wrong with you today? Are you feeling unwell?"
Hu Biao's iron clapper suddenly paused, and he looked up, forcing a smile that suggested he'd been tricked out of a small fortune by Big A. "Yeah, I don't know what's wrong with me today, I'm a little dizzy!"
"Then hurry back and rest!" Chen Haoran rushed forward and reached out to touch Hu Biao's forehead, but Hu Biao awkwardly dodged it.
"Senior brother, I don't have a fever, I just went to bed a little late last night and I'm sleep-deprived."
"If you're sleep-deprived, go back to sleep. What are you doing here?" Chen Haoran said reproachfully. "Our group's progress has already surpassed the experimental group's. You're not really here for anything. Go back and rest. If anything happens to you, the teacher will kill us!"
"Yes, junior brother, hurry back before the teacher arrives, otherwise we'll be the ones getting scolded," Zhou Mingyuan said with a worried expression.
At first glance, it seems like they are concerned about Hu Biao, but in fact, they are concerned about themselves!
Hu Biao is no longer a freshman who just arrived. In just one month, he has completely established his position in the group.
In the research group, Hu Biao's work involves using his algorithm to perform precise multiple sequence alignment on massive gene sequencing data to identify potential functionally conserved regions or structural domains.
At first, the data analysis team treated Hu Biao with the attitude of senior students towards a freshman, and they would occasionally give him some pointers. However, as time went by, they gradually realized that this junior was really extraordinary, and they marveled at how Professor Shen Moxuan truly had a keen eye for talent!
The entropy-weighted optimization dynamic programming algorithm he proposed in his paper, after further adjustments and code implementation by him, has been successfully integrated into the research group's data processing workflow. It is specifically used to handle non-coding RNA sequences with low conservation, high variability, and those that conventional alignment tools cannot handle. As Hu Biao became more familiar with the work, his work became increasingly efficient and stable. Moreover, through extensive practice, he was able to continuously optimize his algorithm, and his adjustments to the algorithm details often hit the key points in data processing, improving the efficiency of the entire data analysis team several times over.
In addition, they also found that Hu Biao had an amazing learning ability. From a complete novice when he first joined the research group, he was able to use tools such as BLAST, Clustal Omega, and MEME to perform cross-validation in just one month, and began to learn how to use software such as Cytoscape to construct visualization maps of gene regulatory networks.
In fact, within the research group, Hu Biao was no longer content with simply staying in front of the computer.
He began to consciously "piggyback" on experiments.
The research group is involved in a wide range of experimental techniques, from the most basic cell culture, RNA extraction, and reverse transcription PCR (RT-PCR) to more advanced techniques such as CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, Western blotting, and high-throughput sequencing library construction.
Hu Biao was no stranger to these experiments. After determining his major and gaining a certain understanding of it, he had used his high-dimensional perspective to observe other people's operations in laboratories around the world. However, watching others operate and doing it yourself, especially when someone teaches you how to operate it step by step, are two completely different concepts.
He first learned aseptic techniques from an easy-going doctoral student, practicing passage culture of several cell lines commonly used in the research group in a cleanroom. He learned quickly, his technique was steady, and the contamination rate was low. Next, he began to explore molecular cloning experiments, learning how to use restriction endonucleases and DNA ligases for plasmid extraction, PCR amplification, gel electrophoresis, and gel extraction and recovery.
These experiments require meticulous operation and precise control of time and temperature. Hu Biao, with his strong mental strength, focus, and gradually evolving physical coordination, mastered them at an astonishing speed.
He also specifically learned how to operate a real-time quantitative PCR instrument (qPCR) and the sample loading process of a high-throughput sequencer.
Anyway, he learned everything he could in this research group.
Through participating in these experiments, Hu Biao not only established good relationships with the data analysis group, but also with the entire research team. The team members had a very good impression of this "genius, refined scoundrel" freshman.
After learning about Hu Biao's performance, especially after seeing Hu Biao's continuously optimized algorithms and work efficiency, Shen Moxuan has completely come to regard him as a treasure. Now, he often uses Hu Biao as an example to criticize his doctoral and postdoctoral students.
If he finds out that Hu Biao is unwell but still working in the data analysis lab, his senior colleagues will definitely be in trouble.
After being persuaded by several senior students, Hu Biao reluctantly left the laboratory building. However, instead of returning to his dormitory, he swiped a shared bicycle and left the school. He rode for half a kilometer and stopped at the entrance of a residential area.
This is the house that Niu Yafei bought before the start of the semester. She originally bought it to accompany Hu Biao while he studied, because she was worried that Hu Biao's health would be affected by nightmares. However, after a while, she found that Hu Biao had returned to normal and Niu Yafei could no longer stay there. After all, she still had a local boss in Dongling to take care of, so she left the house to Hu Biao, who would come to stay from time to time.
However, he's not here to spend the night.
After entering the house, Hu Biao threw his schoolbag aside and went to the master bedroom, which he had transformed into a small workstation. Several state-of-the-art servers were stacked up, occupying a third of the room. Nine screens were arranged in a 3x3 grid in front of him. Hu Biao sat down in the chair in front of the screen, then blinked and activated his high-dimensional vision. Blue Star appeared before his eyes. He stretched out his hand, zoomed in on Earth, and lowered his gaze to the scattered islands between Japan and the West. Finally, he settled on an inconspicuous island that could not be found on any map.
Having pinpointed the island's location, Hu Biao began rotating the blue planet in front of him, focusing his gaze on the artificial satellites in orbit and the astronomical observatories, some bright and some dim, on the planet. After observing for a while, he seemed to have determined something. Then, he physically disconnected his home network, opened a modeling software on his computer, and entered the data from the satellites and astronomical observatories he had just observed. He began modeling, and ten minutes later, the maximum field of view of the satellites in the sky and the ground-based observatories was marked. Subsequently, Hu Biao began to locate the island he was interested in. Soon, a semi-real line extended from the island, stretching directly into space beyond the blue planet. This line was not fixed but changed slowly over time.
Hu Biao squinted and began adjusting the angle of his high-dimensional view to overlap it with the image on the screen. He then reached out and drew a trajectory along the line on the screen.
"Beijing time, 10:45 AM." Hu Biao glanced at the time flashing on his computer screen, then at his phone. "Five more minutes, that's enough!"
He opened a small drawer in front of him, took out a pair of latex gloves, put them on, rummaged around in the drawer, took out a paper cutter, and began to pry open the high-dimensional view with his fingers, zooming in and moving the island to his eyes. Its size was fixed at the size of an egg, like a tiny island model that kindergarten children play with.
He stretched out the paper cutter in his hand, thought for a moment, then found a wet wipe, wiped the blade, and then reached into the seawater around the island to cut at the bottom of the island.
Silently, the blade sliced through the water, separating the island from the seamount about a hundred meters below...
Extend one hand to stabilize the bottom of the island, raise the other hand, align the two iron balls in the hand with the trajectory calculated by the computer, and gently push to release the higher-dimensional state...
He muttered curses under his breath, "Damn capitalists, they dared to set me up..."
Above low Earth orbit, two asteroids, each over 100 meters in diameter, suddenly appeared in the blind spot of all satellites and observatories, hurtling toward the Earth's surface at incredible speeds and crashing along their predetermined trajectories.