Decide what it is you actually want to see. If you are happiest looking at the moon in detail, or a few of our closest neighbours, then your requirements for the best telescope will be different than if you want to observe deep space. Like a planisphere, you dial the time against the date to view the stars there and then. Changing the views, assembling and re-assembling are all important skills to be learned. The fun with this little instrument will be transferred to equatorial mounts and much else if the recipient develops any permanent interest in astronomy.

A great many would-be astronomers never reach their dreams, because they get frustrated and give up too soon, before they have even learned the basics of the night sky. With the combination of Gencode GTF and the HERV annotations of the brain cortex in the GTEx Project, RNA sequencing reads were aligned to the reference human genome (GRCh38) using STAR. HERV expression levels were estimated by RSEM and normalized by TPM. The comparison of HERV_00001450 expression levels between GBMs and normal samples from TCGA and GTEx was performed with a two-sided Wilcoxon rank-sum test. cis-ervQTL analysisYou really should take some time to get to know what it is you will be gazing into, before you gaze into it using some fairly pricy equipment. Fu H, Ge B, Chen D, Wu Y, Luo Q, Li X, et al. Phytanoyl-CoA 2-hydroxylase-interacting protein-like gene is a therapeutic target gene for glioblastoma multiforme. Med Sci Monit. 2019;25:2583–90. Hadjiargyrou M, Delihas N. The intertwining of transposable elements and non-coding RNAs. Int J Mol Sci. 2013;14:13307–28. Wang L, Park HJ, Dasari S, Wang S, Kocher JP, Li W. CPAT: Coding-Potential Assessment Tool using an alignment-free logistic regression model. Nucleic Acids Res. 2013;41:e74. HERVs with at least one significantly associated cis-ervQTL after permutation and q-value correction ENCODE:

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