All, Thanks for responding to my question about open source projects working towards creating tools/applications.
I'm all for keeping an open philosophy. BioJava, BioPerl, The Apache projects, SourceForge.net, all great places that help accelerate the development process so we can get the results we need. It occurs to me that there may be more users than there are programmers. So, I'm looking to find out if there is a suite of tools that are "ready out of the box" and don't require writing scripts,... I don't think such a thing exists (correct me if I'm wrong). So, I'm looking to find people interested in creating such a project. Or, learn more about what some of the commonalities are among the tasks people are trying to do. When I think of tools, I don't mean scripts - rather something that is GUI based that can be run and is intuitive. Scripts usually aren't intuitive. When I hear scripts, I think of many scripts that have to be run one after that other. Even this is something that would be good in a gui - something to manage the repetitive tasks. As I said, I'm all for the open philosophy. I just think that having a workbench/toolbox that works out of the box is what's missing. A Scientist's, BioInformatician's, or Research Assistant's time would be better spent doing research rather than doing (or learning) programming, or learning an API/SDK. If an open-source toolbox (gui based, not script) existed, perhaps those doing research could focus more of their efforts on research, rather than writing scripts around BioPerl, BioJava. HOWEVER, I believe whatever gui tools/workbench is created, BioPerl and BioJava are excellent SDK's/libraries to use as the building blocks. Thoughts? If anyone wants to contact me directly, I welcome that. I'm more than interested to hear what people are trying to do with these libraries, what they want to automate, how they want things automated..... m. _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://biojava.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l
