Hi, I am a computational biologist and I do my majority of jobs using Julia right now. So far biojulia is not so practical but you can using BioPython package. It is quite convenient and painless to call python package so far. R packages are also necessary for bioinformatics. However, as I known, Julia haven't a good interface to connect with R at this moment. Therefore I wrote some custom code to wrap Rif.jl package in order to better calling R in Julia.
What's ever, the reality is there is no any language even close to prefect for the biological data analysis. You could choice using Python+R, or using Julia plus python and R packages. Most people chose the first one for the tradition reason, but I prefer the latter one due to the incomparable characters of Julia language, even I have to pay some price for its immaturity at this moment. At least, I can do all the jobs using one language now, rather than always shifting between python and R. On Saturday, April 25, 2015 at 7:08:16 PM UTC+2, Tim K wrote: > > Dear All, > > I am finishing a bioengineering postdoc soon, and am looking to learn some > bioinformatics. Accordingly, I was wondering what the status of > bioinformatics tools for Julia is? > > > (I would post in the biojulia-dev group, but it has not been updated since > July 2014.) > > > Cheers, > > Tim. > >
