What is the Swanson Conversion?

Answer 1

The Swanson Conversion is another term for Pyruvate Decarboxylation. It is part of the process by which cells produce ATP and takes place before the Krebs Cycle. The origin of the name "the Swanson Conversion" is unknown, but the story goes that there was a high school Biology teacher named Swanson who wanted something named after himself, so he told his students to put "the Swanson Conversion" down as another name for pyruvate decarboxylation on its wikipedia page and spread the name around the internet to gain it credibility, and now the name is commonly used as a substitute for "pyruvate carboxylation"

Answer 2

The Swanson Conversion refers to a method used in project management to estimate the cost of a project based on the size of the software code. It was developed by Jerry Swanson in the 1970s. The conversion is used to predict project costs by calculating a cost per line of code metric.