It wouldn't recommend it for real work just yet. There's a lot of functionality yet to be built, or not yet merged, so it can't compete with python or matlab in terms of completeness and stability. I'm pretty happy with how it's coming along though, so hopefully that will change in the future.
On Saturday, April 25, 2015 at 11:36:19 AM UTC-7, Tim K wrote: > > Thanks guys. > > Would you say that it's suitable for a newbie, or should I stick with > MATLAB or python? > > > > On Saturday, 25 April 2015 20:12:08 UTC+2, Daniel Jones wrote: >> >> Don't let the lack of activity on the mailing list fool you, it is being >> actively developed. We just mostly communicate in github issues and on >> gitter. Browsing the pending PRs in Bio.jl is a good way to get a sense of >> what's happening: https://github.com/BioJulia/Bio.jl/pulls >> >> On Saturday, April 25, 2015 at 10:08:16 AM UTC-7, 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. >>> >>>
