Speaking as one who has no idea what bioinformics is... :-) I would want to know.. roughly.. what bioinformics is (eg "bioinformics is a specifical chemical science dealing with separating frogs from their ethereal existence while maintaining familial contact with them).
What part of bioinformics perl helps deal with (eg "processing frogs' ethereal structure is a very string intensive process. So we use perl cause perl is good at that"). And then go on to say how exactly (exactly being a very broad term depending on your time :-) ) perl actually solves this problem. That would be a talk I would like to hear (though I won't be going to YAPC). In my mind... there are two groups of newbies to the bioinformics - perl world... those who want to know what bioinformics is and the find details, just for the sake of knowing... and then those that want to know enough to be able to make money off the knowledge. Though the latter must include some level of the first. Hope this helps! -John Sean Quinlan wrote: >[forwarded submission from a non-member address -- rjk] > > >From: Sean Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: 18 Apr 2002 02:21:56 -0400 >Subject: Bioinformatics >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >I'm toying with the idea of doing a presentation on bioinformatics at >YAPC. Partially this is motivated as a selling point to my boss(es), as >we have a teaching/community outreach requirement for one of our grants >I might be able to squeak this in under. > >Anyway, my problem is I'm not sure what to set as my topic, or what to >focus on. One suggestion is that I start with an introduction to >bioinformatics and discus some of the available tools. But that seems a >little to generic, and not very Perl informative. Unless there will be >other more detailed presentations on the subject following I suppose. > >So I'm looking for ideas. What would those of you on the list not >working in bioinformatics be interested in hearing about? Or should I >just present a wide array of the ways I know of that Perl has been >applied to bioinformatics problems. > >This may be something that's easier to brainstorm in person with a group >of people. If anyone would be interested in that, let me know. > >TIA! > >
