bio_enthusiast wrote: > I was wondering how to go about starting an open source project for > doing routine biological problems? There is a plethora of scripts and > a fairly large biopython project to back up anyone who tried, these > however cater to the bioinformatics community and it loses the vast > majority of the wet-lab scientists. How can someone who is used to > writing small scripts and doing wet-lab work contribute to the open > source community? Starting software projects seems to be the domain of > people with much more experience and skill but there are some serious > needs by people who do not have the skills to upkeep any software > based project. >
If you've written a few small scripts that might be of use to others and that you assume that there are others who do the same, you might start with a wiki or something like the Python Cookbook (http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Python/Cookbook/), but geared toward labs and biology. If this gains any traction (that is if you get additional code snippets, people are commenting etc.), after a while, it might be useful to look at the material and see if there is enough code that warrants a library. This does not mean to simply package all the scripts into one package, but to see if there are any common tasks among the scripts to 'refactor' them into a library. Daniel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
