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His similes--there is at least one per page--are either trimmed for historical plausibility (like the thieves Romishly at prayer) or, more frequently, made to involve an animal, the idea perhaps being that in simpler times, a homely, rustic simile would have come to mind.
A signal peptidase cleaves the signal sequence and the trimmed protein is shuttled through the Golgi for secretion.
We have trimmed the dataset prior to analysis following the methods of Alexander et al.
The normalization procedure recommended by Affymetrix is to multiply raw signals by a scaling factor such that the trimmed mean (excluding 2% highest and 2% lowest) of signals is always the same (500 in this study).
One can imagine a watery planet with small sail boats, sails, and tillers trimmed to tack forever on a left tack, forever circling the everywhere ocean.