Got a call from PHDjobs.com this morning. Apparently bioinformaticists are in high demand. So there might even be a job for me at the end of all this.
Writing-up is being impeded by my obsession with Eiffel. One thing I don't like about it is that the array access syntax is clunky (although you can use array @ i for array.item(i)); one of the things that was fixed in Sather. But I should really forget Eiffel and get down to reading Accelerated C++, which might at least leave me with a marketable skill.

Spent the whole day getting a handle on Chris's propensity table code. He writes a single program to do the whole smoothing procedure. My approach is more Unixish - lots of little programs to do pieces of the job, which I then glue together with a shell script. The right thing to do would be to have a Perl script that parses a table definition and then works out what lower level tables you need to generate to smooth the final table.