I just submitted a Mellon Award for Tech Collaboration nomination for the Python Buildhaus. What's that, you ask?
read moreThe Python Buildhaus is a project to systematically build, test and release Open Source Python packages on Windows, Mac OS X, and a wide array of other UNIX architectures and operating systems …
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Just submitted this on Thursday:
Next generation sequencers are beginning to impact agricultural biology. Over the next few years, next generation sequencing will produce incredibly large datasets that will address structural (e.g., SNPs, CNVs, indels, methylation, translocations) and functional (e.g., RNA expression, transcription factor binding sites) variation in …read more
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I'm writing some proposals to expand support for Python infrastructure (think cross-platform build and test farms a la Snakebite) and for the Mellon Foundation application, I'd like to find out how Python is being used in the humanities. I found NLTK, the Natural Language Toolkit; what else is big?
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I'd like to invite you to attend the last of the Michigan State University CSE colloquia for the 2008-2009 academic year: jointly sponsored as an AT&T Visiting Lecturer by the MSU LCT, and the CSE department, Sam Ramji will speak about
Open Source at Microsoft: The Past, Present and …read more
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As part of a CiSE submission I'm working on, I interviewed the lead developer on a scientific software package today. This software package is mainly used for evolutionary studies, and has a small but devoted following - ~6 developers and ~12 users locally, plus a few dozen users outside of MSU …
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Open source coding is like a not-so-demanding mistress: I work on it at night, surreptitiously, after my wife and daughter are asleep. twill and figleaf are like bastard children, who only get attention when I can spare it from my "real" family (my teaching, research or my actual family, depending …
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Anyone out there used disco (http://discoproject.org/)? Comments, good/bad/neutral?
From the page:
read moreDisco is an open-source implementation of the Map-Reduce framework for distributed computing. As the original framework, Disco supports parallel computations over large data sets on unreliable cluster of computers.
The Disco core is written in …
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