A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy.

This book is simply a joy and Leyh’s colorful and detailed artwork truly brings it to life. This is a great book about believing in yourself and finding your own way in the world even if those around you may think it is weird. It is also just really fulfilling and positive with plenty of withcraft and friendship to go around. Highly recommended. No one writes crime novels like Belinda Bauer, with a rare blend of darkness, humour and heart. She's a crime writing genius.' C. L. TAYLOR, bestselling author of The Missing I really think it's tough for authors out there to come up with unique and interesting thrillers lately... I feel like they're all beginning to bleed into one another :(.Thank you so much to Netgalley and Grove Atlantic for the opportunity to read this in exchange for my honest review. Mommy must have ‘snapped’ a brain-artery... she goes searching for help....but leaves the kids behind. For context, McDermid founded the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival with Bauer’s agent, Jane Gregory, who is also her agent. Cosy. I’d be interested to hear from the other judges individually as to why they thought this book worthy of inclusion. If Snap is, as McDermid claims, “the best crime novel I’ve read in a very long time”, then it’s not literary fiction that’s in trouble.

Snapdragon by Kat Leyh is a graphic novel bubbling with energy and magic. And friendship! I loved these characters and the bonds they formed. The connections we find in ourselves and others are what make our days special in this world. Discovering who we are AND people to support and surround us is the light in the sky, the sparkle in the glitter, and the joy of it all! Snap learns that and so much more when she comes face to face with the town witch, a woman rumored to have fed her eye to the devil and casts spells with bones from the animals she eats. Is there any truth in the rumors? Read and find out! A little later, Catherine is queasy as she stares down at her tummy: “Because for the first time, alongside their precious child, grew a tiny seed of doubt.” Gene prediction accuracy with foreign parameters appears to follow GC content more than phylogenetic relationships. For example, Oryza parameters perform reasonably well in Drosophila sequence (>25% genes correct) but very poorly in A. thaliana (5% genes correct). Similarly, for finding C. elegans genes, one is better off with parameters from A. thaliana than D. melanogaster. Choosing the best foreign gene finder is therefore not simply a matter of using parameters from the closest relative. Genomes have significant compositional differencesBauer is known for taking the bleakest of situations and turning them into something special. At no point in this book are you going to go 'WOW!', because it is a quietly clever book, one that is a satisfying read, a moving read. Belinda Bauer's fiction teems with life . . . Kate Atkinson used to be the undisputed master of this sort of mixture of the serious, the exciting and the anarchic, but Bauer is now firmly in her class.' Daily Telegraph Sakata K, Nagamura Y, Numa H, Antonio BA, Nagasaki H, Idonuma A, Watanabe W, Shimizu Y, Horiuchi I, Matsumoto T, Sasaki T, Higo K: RiceGAAS: an automated annotation system and database for rice genome sequence. Nucleic Acids Res 2002, 30: 98–102. 10.1093/nar/30.1.98 An absolute treasure. It’s kind, vibrant, and alive, with characters you’ll love immediately—I had to reread it right away, because I wasn’t ready to say goodbye yet! An unforgettable story about loving ourselves, those around us, and the world we inhabit.” —Gale Galligan, author of the Kristy’s Big Day graphic novel

SNAP models protein coding sequences in genomic DNA via a specialized hidden Markov model similar to the one used in Genscan [ 1]. There are a few key differences: Eileen Bright was missing. Police constantly entered and left the Bright house. Mr. Bright was distraught and preoccupied. He didn't notice the youngsters reading newspapers documenting their mother's disappearance. Days later, her stabbed body was found on the side of the road. An unusual looking knife was discovered nearby. The case remained unsolved.

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Even though foreign gene finders may perform sub-optimally, their predictions may display compositional properties of the novel genome. For example, when annotating the A. thaliana genome with a C. elegans gene finder, the predictions appeared very much like real A. thaliana genes. Figure 3d shows a splice acceptor pictogram derived from these predictions. Note that the sequence composition broadly resembles true A. thaliana splice acceptors, including a preference for G at -3 and a T-rich upstream sequence. It also retains some C. elegans qualities such as a greater proportion of Ts at -5 and -6. I hope I’ve interested you enough that you will run and get this book as soon as it’s published, it’s that good! It takes a while for the different threads in this book to come together, to weave their tapestry into the bigger picture, but it is a picture worth waiting for. This is a novel of loss, of grief, of getting by by whatever means possible, of betrayal. But there is also hope and loyalty, and unexpected kindnesses. And humor in the form of Marvel, Reynolds and Rice.