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 **Do Bioinformaticians have naming regrets?** **Do Bioinformaticians have naming regrets?**
  
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 Once a day, I was driving in front of the red light with an eye peeking on my iPhone UberEats driver app, that’s frequent manner for anyone hoping to earn extra after work. Suddenly, a vehicle’ plate on my right front drew my attention printed with the same word as my app’s name - UBEREATS. “Damn it, the plate name has been taken, I should have thought about it, it happens to be 8 characters as the maximum allowance in Ontario”. Many thoughts came into my mind, and finally I was reluctant to accept this is a smart competitor using the plate name I wanted. Once a day, I was driving in front of the red light with an eye peeking on my iPhone UberEats driver app, that’s frequent manner for anyone hoping to earn extra after work. Suddenly, a vehicle’ plate on my right front drew my attention printed with the same word as my app’s name - UBEREATS. “Damn it, the plate name has been taken, I should have thought about it, it happens to be 8 characters as the maximum allowance in Ontario”. Many thoughts came into my mind, and finally I was reluctant to accept this is a smart competitor using the plate name I wanted.
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 Suddenly, I am worried about my half-baked ideas such as a hypothetical protein database and a phylogenetic analysis booster. After a quick Google search, “Damn it, HypoDB and Phyloboost are already there” Will it worth trying “Hypotheticaldb or Phylobooster”? I don’t have answers, maybe let it go, the smart UberEats competitor.  Suddenly, I am worried about my half-baked ideas such as a hypothetical protein database and a phylogenetic analysis booster. After a quick Google search, “Damn it, HypoDB and Phyloboost are already there” Will it worth trying “Hypotheticaldb or Phylobooster”? I don’t have answers, maybe let it go, the smart UberEats competitor. 
  
-Xi Zhang, PhD +<Xi Zhang, PhD  
-Postdoctoral Fellow, Archibald Lab, Dalhousie University +Postdoctoral Fellow, 
-Last updated Feb 7th,2022+Archibald Lab, Dalhousie University> 
 +BIORXIV-2022-480734v1-Zhang 
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 +<Last updated by Xi Zhang on Jan 9th,2022>
  
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