On 3/30/15 11:23 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
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…
... incongruent with the recently-published bioinformatics paper. -- Andrei
