On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Mario Gianota wrote:
> Michael Heuer wrote: > > > The biojava library, javadocs, and example code integrate well into any of > > a number of java IDEs -- netbeans, forte, codewarrior, jde, jbuilder &c. > > as is. > > Yes, but these tools are still too complicated for biologists to use. As > programmers we take a good deal of what we know for granted and cannot > afford to assume that the concepts we have in our heads have a corresponding > approximation in the head of the average biologist because the biologists > frequently haven't got the first idea of what we're talking about. > > I suppose the correct phrase would be biology-centric for an IDE that is > wholly devoted to Biologists. No specialized programming knowledge required. > Such an IDE would have an emphasis on point & click, dragging, mouse > gestures and so on and would deliberately go out of its way to hide the > programming side of things and provide most of its functionality with visual > metaphors. Please be careful about generalizations here -- I'm a biologist, and I bet that most primary authors of code in all openbio projects would also consider themselves biologists or chemists first, and programmers second. I just spend more time programming than pipetting. michael _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://biojava.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l
