On Mon, 2015-03-30 at 18:04 +0000, george via Digitalmars-d wrote: > > .NET actually already has a foothold in bioinformatics, > > specially in user facing software and steering of reading > > equipments and robots. > > > > So D's needs a story over C# and F# (alongside WPF for data > > visualization) use cases. > > > > -- > > Paulo
Paulo, Can you send me some pointers to this stuff? > > Though when it comes to open source bioinformatics projects, Perl > and Python have a large foothold > among most most bioinformaticians. Most utilities that require > speed are often written in C and C++ (BLAST, HMMER, SAMTOOLS etc). > > I think D stands a good chance as a language of choice for > bioinformatics projects. > > George My "prejudice", based on training people in Python and C++ over the last few years, is that Python and C++ have a very strong position in the bioinformatics community, with the use of IPython (now becoming Jupyter) increasing and solidifying the Python position. D's position is quite weak here because one of the important things is visualising data, something SciPy/Matplotlib are very good at. D has no real play in this arena and so there is no way (currently) of creating a foothold. Sad, but… -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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