"I regard a good budget as among the noblest monuments of virtue," he declared, admitting to "a sort of obsession" with the task of trimming.
The sorting and trimming of the metagenomic data, based on quality and size of the reads, as well as the contig assembling were done using the 454 Newbler assembler (version 2.0.01.14) for Genome Sequencer FLX (Roche, USA).
Bioinformaticians at the JCVI performed preliminary quality checks, sorting, and trimming of the sequences.
This sort of inquiry allows them to trim the (sometimes literal but mostly figurative) fat and optimize every aspect of their processes.
The pyrosequencing reads were sorted and trimmed as described (19 ).
But this is not the sort of cash which can be saved by trimming department budgets a little, or photocopying a bit less (although we do those too).
Valance style trims - sort of like half-peplums - are at the back of skirts.
There's a sizzle, an explosion of shadows, before he emerges utterly changed into a trim, slick sort of bloke bent on particularly 21st-century mischief.
He is more, by temperament, character or attitude, what used to be called a trimmer, rather than a sort of die-in-the-ditch man".
He'd served in the RAF and he had a little trim moustache and a sort of debonair, English way about him.
