On Reciprocal Best BLAST Hits

In which I narrowly avoid a rant. Reciprocal best BLAST hits can improve the quality of your searching, and are a good way to find candidate orthologues. There's evidence and everything.

The Base Rate Fallacy in Effector-Finding

In which an oft-overlooked bit of genome-mining statistics is considered, and your enjoyment of a holiday could depend heavily on other people's hygiene.