On Monday, 30 March 2015 at 20:28:11 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Monday, 30 March 2015 at 18:04:58 UTC, george 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.
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Paulo
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
Yes on the server side and UNIX based research.
However, I have learned in the last years that Windows based
systems are also used a lot, specially in controlling robots
and doing the first processing steps and visualization.
At least in commercial research.
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Paulo
Yes, to the benefit of literally no-one. To be fair, it's not a
problem of the operating system, just that special purpose GUI
programmes for scientific work always seem to be utterly dreadful.
"Hey, we need to record some time series and show a spectrum on
the fly" "OK great, let's commission a closed source Windows GUI
application with its own proprietary file format, sure it'll
crash once a day and have scientifically important paramters
hard-coded and undocumented, but at least you can point and
click!"
It seems to be true across the board in government research
facilities, pharmaceutical companies, most of academia and so
on... Enormous piles of proprietary vomit being propped up by an
endless stream of disinterested and semi-incompetent programmers,
steadily digging their way to job security.
