Image via WikipediaFriendFeed might be a subject of silly Silicon Valley blogger debates, but for the life science community it’s a lot more. The Life Scientists is a poster child for microcommunity, the ISMB2008 room was a wonderful example of a group of people coming together to make a conference come to life, and there are other rooms as well, e.g. for BioBarCamp
Now, something a little different, with the launch of two new rooms, Ruby for Bioinformatics and Python for Bioinformatics. More and more Bioinformatics/molecular modeling types are using those two languages. I am busy trying to recast myself as a wannabe Ruby hacker, so the opportunity to learn from people like Matt Wood is something I am looking forward to.
I quite like Ruby. It’s got some great functionality, a number of web frameworks and other associated utilities, and a wonderful community. While in the end, I don’t really think languages are religion, it would be nice to see more Ruby and associated frameworks in the life sciences. Perhaps a room like this will expose more people to the language.
Someone just pointed out that there is a room for R for Bioinformatics as well, so all you stats types, head there.
Getting geeky with Ruby and Python on Friendfeed
Now, something a little different, with the launch of two new rooms, Ruby for Bioinformatics and Python for Bioinformatics. More and more Bioinformatics/molecular modeling types are using those two languages. I am busy trying to recast myself as a wannabe Ruby hacker, so the opportunity to learn from people like Matt Wood is something I am looking forward to.
I quite like Ruby. It’s got some great functionality, a number of web frameworks and other associated utilities, and a wonderful community. While in the end, I don’t really think languages are religion, it would be nice to see more Ruby and associated frameworks in the life sciences. Perhaps a room like this will expose more people to the language.
Someone just pointed out that there is a room for R for Bioinformatics as well, so all you stats types, head there.