On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, James Freeman wrote: > John Saylor wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > ( 02.04.19 00:10 -0400 ) Sean Quinlan: > > > What would those of you on the list not working in bioinformatics be > > > interested in hearing about? > > > > Why do the VCs keep throwing money at you guys? But that doesn't have > > much to do with perl.
"Why bioinformatics is a good field for perl coders who know nothing about biology." > > :) that boat has sailed, see: > > http://www.genomeweb.com/articles/view-article.asp?Article=20011119195555 > http://www.genomeweb.com/articles/view-article.asp?Article=200231116396 > http://www.genomeweb.com/articles/view-article.asp?Article=200211510015 > http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=LEON&d=c&k=c1&a=v&p=s&t=2y&l=on&z=m&q=l > http://www.genomeweb.com/articles/view-article.asp?Article=200232712114 I especially appreciate the last one, posted on the first of this month. Time to buy DIS! "Disney to Acquire Celeras Sequencing Business, Open Drug Discovery Pavilion at Epcot". > > > Or should I just present a wide array of the ways I know of that Perl > > > has been applied to bioinformatics problems. > > > > Contrary to what you might have heard on television, "wider is not > > better." I have always enjoyed presentations more when they dove into > > one thing, and followed it through phases. My experience has been that > > survey presentations are like listening to someone read a list. Agreed. Unless the broad topic is made entirely geeky and therefore interesting. :-) > Bioperl has reached 1.0, and would be a great place to start see: > > http://bioperl.org/ I would love to see the plusses and minuses of bioperl, since I have next to no experience with it, except for a few comments from a bioinformaticist friend. How is it received in the bioinformatics community, besides those who live and breathe it? A very YAPC question: what if anything can J random perl-hacker do to improve it? > > A good one might be, "How to convince your boss to pick up the tab for > > going to a perl conference." I think a lot of people would be interested > > in that. My boss is paying for yapc. But then again, I can easily persuade my boss, since I'm self-employed. > > -- > > \js "leverage dynamic e-markets" *laugh* try googling for that. I expected the "web-economy bullshit generator" to appear at the top of the list, but it's not. Ta, off on vacation for the weekend! -Daniel $_='[EMAIL PROTECTED] 519-575-3733 /Prescient Code Solutions/ coder.com ';s/-/ /g;s/([.@])/ $1/g;@y=(42*1476312054+7*3,14120504e4,-42*330261-33, 42*5436+3,42*2886+10,42*434987+5);s/(.)/ord(uc($1))/ge;for(@x=split/32/; @y; map{print chr} split /(..)/, shift(@x) + shift(@y)) {perlmonk.da.ru}
