Iain Banks

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5 total works indexed

1. The Genome Analysis Toolkit: A MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data

   · 2010 · cited 25,635x

2. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,412x

3. The variant call format and VCFtools

   · 2011 · cited 15,300x

4. A framework for variation discovery and genotyping using next-generation DNA sequencing data

   · 2011 · cited 10,548x

5. Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans

   · 2016 · cited 8,989x

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Quotes

• “There is a saying that we provide the machines with an end, and they provide us with the means.”
• ““Tell me, suit, don’t you wonder if it’s all worth it?’“If what’s all worth what?” it says, and I can hear that condescending tone in its voice again.“You know; living. Is it worth all the... bother?”“No.”“No?”“No, I don’t ever wonder about it.”“Why not?” I’m keeping my questions short as we walk, conserving energy and breath.“I don’t need to wonder about that. It’s not important.”“Not important?”“It’s an irrelevant question. We live; that’s enough.””
• “I’ve been thinking about the war a lot recently, and I think I’ve decided it’s wrong. We are defeating ourselves in waging it, will destroy ourselves by winning it.”
• “We created something a little closer to perfection than ourselves; maybe that’s the only way to progress. Let them try to do the same. I doubt they can, so they will always be less as well as more than us. It’s all just a sum, a whispered piece of figuring lost in the empty blizzards of white noise howling through the universe, a brief oasis in an infinite desert, a freak bit of working out in which we have transcended ourselves, and they are only the remainder.”
• ““Nothing is sacred to you, Mr. Munro. You base your beliefs on the products of human thought, so it could hardly be otherwise. You might believe in certain things, but you do not have faith. That comes with submission to the force of divine revelation.”“So, because I don’t have what I think of as superstitions, because I believe we just happen to exist, and believe in... science, evolution, whatever; I’m not as... worthy as somebody who has faith in an ancient book and a cruel, desert God?””
• “It’s very nearly 1989 but it’s midnight in the Dark Ages just the thickness of a book away, the thickness of a skull away; just the turn of a page away.”

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Key facts

Born

Iain Menzies Banks , 16 February 1954, Dunfermline , Fife , Scotland

Died

9 June 2013 (2013-06-09) (aged 59), Kirkcaldy , Fife, Scotland

Pen name

Iain M. Banks

Occupation

Writer

Education

University of Stirling (BA)

Period

1984–2013

Genre

Science fiction Literary fiction

Spouse

Annie Blackburn ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1992 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2007 ) ​ , Adele Hartley ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2013 ) ​

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Official website

www.iain-banks.net

Image

Iain Banks 2008.jpg

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