Phased in the Dark

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Phased in the Dark

Sep 24 2025 | 00:02:05

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Episode 147 • September 24, 2025 • 00:02:05

Show Notes

This release contains only the music track from Base by Base Episode 147.

Song title: Phased in the Dark
Original Base by Base episode: 147: Full-length ABO Haplotype Sequencing and Variant Resolution

Article metadata:
Article title: Comprehensive Annotation of Complete ABO Alleles and Resolution of ABO Variants by an Improved Full-Length ABO Haplotype Sequencing
Journal: Clinical Chemistry 71:4 (2025) 510–519
DOI: 10.1093/clinchem/hvaf015
Reference: Ying Y, Zhang J, Hong X, Yuan W, Ma K, Huang X, Xu X, Zhu F. Comprehensive Annotation of Complete ABO Alleles and Resolution of ABO Variants by an Improved Full-Length ABO Haplotype Sequencing. Clinical Chemistry. 2025;71(4):510-519. doi:10.1093/clinchem/hvaf015

Lyrics:
Verse 1
Neon hum on the bench, clean hands, steady gaze
One long thread of letters through the microscope haze
From five-prime to three, we don’t cut, we don’t splice
We ride the whole waveform, pay the full price

Pre-Chorus
Long reads, slow burns, lining up in time
Hidden rooms in the introns, footprints in the rhyme
If the pattern breaks the silence, we don’t look away
We phase it to the truth till the shadows obey

Chorus
Full-length, full light—let the haplotype speak
Twenty-six kilobases, running strong, running sleek
When variants try to vanish, we can still see
Phased in the dark, now it’s clear to me

Verse 2
A repeat in the first intron, counting like a drum
UTR motifs folding where the signals come from
A missing stretch, a silent switch, an enhancer torn
Recombinant lines crossing, a chimera reborn

Bridge
So if the blood types blur, if the matches feel thin
We’ll map the unseen structure under every skin
Not a guess, not a maybe—just a better way
To read what was written and guide what we save

Final Chorus
Full-length, full light—let the haplotype speak
Twenty-six kilobases, running strong, running sleek
Big deletions, strange recombines—set them free
Phased in the dark, now it’s clear to me

Chapters

(00:00:10) - Write in the Code

Episode Transcript

[00:00:10] On bright screens the letters fall in line three at a time like a clockwork sign but in this quiet cell the rules feel new to stop light shimmer into something true UAA won't let the story die UAG won't say good A tiny adapter changes the view and the sentence keeps running through stop signs turn to lyrics in the code tonight UA delights you ate the glue all right red through like a river when the gate comes loose but you gay stands guard like a final truce. [00:01:01] Found the TRNA shape just write anticodonkeys in the lab's low light one points to lyc one to glutamate rewriting endings at the ribosomes gate still downstream there's a double stop line tandem UGA by design a safety net where the last word lands so proteins don't spill past the plan stop signs turn to lyrics in the code tonight UA delice a to glue all right annotation dreams need a wider lens cuz the code can change where life begins.

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