One simple but essential benefit is the ability to query a database for an annotation (an assertion about a gene product) based on a particular type of evidence.
In times of domestic austerity, it is tempting to look abroad for an assertion of our continued relevance.
MICHAEL P. LUNDEN The Perennial Best Man Michael P. Lunden's friends always said he was worth waiting for, an assertion he tested frequently.
It was an inopportune moment for an assertion of American leadership, and when it came to the debt crisis Clinton could muster little more than a wispy guarantee that American politicians "understand" what they're doing.
Granted, the singers are meant to personify Compassion, Freedom, Liberation and Ginsberg himself, but if not for an assertion to that effect in the program a listener would not have known it.
Ms. Hearst has spent the last 10 years living it down, and asserts that the figure was inflated, based on dresses she liked but didn't actually buy and vacations she didn't actually pay for, an assertion that has some merit given her mother's home in the Hamptons and regular trips to Hearst Castle in California.
A gleeful follow-up from a Gotcha gangster wiped the smirk off my face: An incorrection, if another synonym for "error" were needed, would be a noun for "an assertion that is incorrect" — but an "incorrect correction" would be a miscorrection.
But at his first full-scale news conference in nearly five months, Mr. Bush also took responsibility for the first time for an assertion in his State of the Union address about Iraq's nuclear weapons program that turned out to be based on questionable intelligence.
Indeed, her work is the best support I know for an assertion made by Zora Neale Hurston, in her still startling 1934 essay "Characteristics of Negro Expression": The Negro's universal mimicry is not so much a thing in itself as an evidence of something that permeates his entire self.
But at his first full-scale news conference in nearly five months, Mr. Bush also took responsibility for the first time for an assertion in his State of the Union address about the threat from Iraq's nuclear weapons program that turned out to be based on questionable intelligence.
