Just to throw a few thoughts in, I think sage is excellently positioned to have a big impact for empiricists and theoreticians within the biological sciences as well as bio-informatics. I haven't trudged through much of openwetware yet, but it might be useful to expand/make another page that shows how easy it is to do bread&butter population-genetic analysis, such as equilibria, invasability, stability plots, etc. It'd be easy to adapt some examples from Otto & Day 2007 as they used mathematica to do most everything including plots. An obvious conclusion to this would be the really clever coalescent simulator that you've designed. I'm still quite new to sage and python, but I'm happy to help in some fashion with this. On the empiricist side, it might be good to show the benefits of wrapping R into sage with a simple data set (I think this has been done already to some extent), combining sage utility with R functionality. If I remember correctly many of the the examples highlighted that you could use R within sage, not how the combination would be useful. I've become really excited about this project in the last month since I've become aware of it, because I think it can already replace most of the functionality that matlab/mathematica provides for many biologists. For what it's worth, I'm a second year graduate student in evolutionary biology at the university of texas. Regards, Thomas
On May 3, 8:11 am, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Feel free to point others to it now. I improved it (hopefully) a > little bit, and I am now posting about it on my blog (which should get > fed into Planet Sage). I can always change it if there are errors/ > omissions. > > Thanks for the feedback. > > M. Hampton > > On May 2, 6:02 pm, Simon King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi! > > > On May 2, 10:17 pm, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I am more or less done my draft of a Sage/Cython article for > > > OpenWetWare. I think this is a good minor opportunity to expose a > > > different community to Sage. The bioinformatics community is already > > > fairly pro-open-source, and OpenWetWare readers are self-selected to > > > be more so. Before it is made "live" and linked to, I would be > > > interested in comments: > > > >http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Marshall_Hampton/Sage > > > I like this article! Obviously you took into account what audience > > you'll have. This is a wise thing to do. > > > In the reddit-blog on William's ISSAC-abstract, some commentors seem > > to have the impression that Sage mainly is algebra, hence, not a good > > tool for engineers. Perhaps one may point them to your article. > > > Yours > > Simon --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
