Hi! I'm a neuroscientist by trade and I would definitely be interested in this initiative. I've already started translating/rewriting some of our in-house analysis code from Matlab/Python to Julia (mostly information theory/neural coding related stuff) and I would be happy to share whatever I have that might be of more general interest. Thanks for starting this!
On Thursday, February 6, 2014 11:57:28 AM UTC+8, Cory Giles wrote: > > Julia shows great promise for biology and bioinformatics-related > programming. It really blows the competition (Python, R) out of the water > in terms of language design, but a lot of work is needed to catch up to the > huge library advantage that's available in these languages. > > I've set up a GitHub organization and Google Group for anyone interested > to discuss how we can make Julia a viable platform for bioinformatics > moving forward. Everyone is welcome, > *especially*non-biologists/bioinformaticians. Biologists are not known for > being the > best programmers in the world, so we can definitely use input from skilled > programmers as well as specialists in the field. > > - https://github.com/JuliaBio > - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/julia-bio >
