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From Sarse

About the SARSE name

The SARSE name stems from the first use of the editor "Semi-Automated RNA Sequence Editor" from the paper Andersen et al., 2007.

The SARSE name could also have a different meaning in relation to data processing, since it is another word for a sieve according to the Free Online dictionary:

   n. 1. A fine sieve; a searce.
   v. t. 1. To sift through a sarse.

The program is build for parsing data through several analyzer programs and can thus be thought of as a sieve filtering data.

II Says Turpin, 'You shall eat your words, With a sarse of leaden bul-let;' 
So he puts a pistol to his mouth, And he fires it down his gul-let. 
The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club by Dickens, Charles