Tools have been released to extract FASTA/Q from the MinION base calling output and to provide basic yield statistics.
Minions, the animated spinoff of the Despicable Me franchise, doesn't open in the US until Thursday night, but many Americans are likely already experiencing Minions fatigue based on the massive marketing push Universal Pictures has made for the animated movie.
General Lionwhyte, who has "fabulous hair", and his minions are based on the glam metal fad of the 1980s which displaced heavy metal to the disappointment of Schafer and other development team members, and became the opponents of the game.
Raw FAST5/HDF files from the MinION instrument are base-called using the Metrichor 2D Basecalling v1.14 pipeline (Metrichor).
Another spin-off entitled Overlord: Minions was released for the Nintendo DS handheld game console but with more puzzle based gameplay and only controlling the minions.
Even in the theater itself, Minions candy is being marketed, with apparently (based on how much I saw being consumed) great success.
We have a partial answer, based on information seeded by White House minions in the fecund soil of the complicit media.
Most importantly, there probably wouldn't be any traction when it came to the roll-out of auxiliary Minion-based merchandise, and that would be unthinkable.
Based on an archetype called Secret Paladin, it works by flooding the board with cheap minions, while also playing the occasional "secret".
The minions weren't in the original script for "Despicable Me," which became a surprise hit in summer 2010 based on strong word of mouth.
Based around Warcraft's Lovecraftian-style elder gods, C'Thun, Yogg-Saron, N'Zoth and Y'Shaarj, the expansion will bring a further 144 cards to the game, including a number of "corrupted" versions of previous minions.
