Free-text descriptions present a major hurdle in data management, and within a genome database, descriptive information must be normalized or standardized so that it is machine-readable before it can be associated with other features in the genome.
At the all-important family reunion, Richard steps forward to grab his estranged father by the arm, "his expression leafing through a dozen readable emotions before landing somewhere between apology and forgiveness".
(Strange, given that he's written brisk, readable narratives before, including "Nothing to Fear" and "The Perfect Store"). He takes the reader down a couple of biographical sinkholes, giving us pages of back stories when a simple paragraph would have done the trick.
Why try? "The rush of ideas," she wrote me, "the first shining pages, and the hope of writing an at-least-readable "masterpiece" before departing this mortal coil drove me on.
The encyclopedia provides information on the act of year walking itself, as well as all of the creatures met along the way, each entry readable in full before you've even encountered them.
Thirty-six countries participate in the Visa Waiver Program (VWP), which allows for 90 days of travel and/or work as long as the person has either an electronic passport or a machine readable passport issued before 2005.
Is it possible to describe in a machine-readable way the before-and-after state of a service, so that a person or a program could know what was changed when the service was invoked?
Has he got the right people around him to produce a readable, upmarket newspaper first, before disseminating its content across the digital ether?
In these instances, films were exposed 10× longer than the last readable positive control exposure before a negative result was recorded.
