Teju Cole

Person · Open Library

Works

21

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

US

Active from

1919-03-17

Active to

1965-02-15

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

43

Total plays

200

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome

   · 2009 · cited 19,772x

2. Naïve Bayesian Classifier for Rapid Assignment of rRNA Sequences into the New Bacterial Taxonomy

   · 2007 · cited 17,749x

3. Transcript assembly and quantification by RNA-Seq reveals unannotated transcripts and isoform switching during cell differentiation

   · 2010 · cited 13,868x

4. Establishing a standard definition for child overweight and obesity worldwide: international survey

   · 2000 · cited 11,300x

5. TopHat2: accurate alignment of transcriptomes in the presence of insertions, deletions and gene fusions

   · 2013 · cited 11,121x

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Quotes

• “I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce scenes symbolized by the very slow washing of dishes.”
• “I have mentally rehearsed a reaction for a possible encounter with such corruption at the airport in Lagos. But to walk in off a New York street and face a brazen demand for a bribe: that is a shock I am ill-prepared for.””
• “Hey, hey young guy, why trouble yourself? They'll take your money anyway, and they'll punish you by delaying your passport. Is that what you want? Aren't you more interested in getting your passport than trying to prove a point?”
• “I have taken into myself some of the assumptions of life in a Western democracy—certain ideas about legality, for instance, certain expectations of due process—and in that sense I have returned a stranger.””
• “Help us fight corruption. If any employee of the consulate asks for a bribe or tip, please, have a discreet word with the Consul General”
• “Policemen routinely stop drivers of commercial vehicles at this spot to demand bribe”

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