This month the newly minted biology-in-python mailing list erupted into a discussion of licenses. There was some confusion about the goal of the discussion, for which I'm largely responsible: we didn't make it clear that we were talking about licenses for code and content posted on the bio.scipy.org …
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In the spirit of cleaning up my desktop... here's a PDF of my talk on Cartwheel at SciPy 2007.
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I'm now listed on the Gene Expression in Disease and Development page, as well as on the CompSci faculty page, MicroMolecularGenetics faculty page, QuantBio page, and SysBio page.
It was quite a shock to log into the CompSci cluster at MSU and see my group set as "faculty". As a …
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It's been a busy few weeks, in part because I've been writing a grant. Last Thursday, I submitted a grant proposal to NIH for their program announcement, Continued Development and Maintenance of Software. The proposal was to continue maintaining Cartwheel, while integrating a new visualization frontend (MUSSA) and a fast …
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So, I "organized" a Biology Birds of a Feather at SciPy 2007. This mainly consisted of posting about it and then trying to write stuff on a white board while keeping abreast of the conversation. About 15 people attended.
I didn't get everyone's name and in any case I don't …
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To get people talking, I've created a "biology-in-python" mailing list. You can subscribe here: http://lists.idyll.org/listinfo/biology-in-python, and you can post to it at bip@lists.idyll.org once you're a member.
This list is a tool/package/library-agnostic list, for people who use Python to work …
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corebio, the joint effort by a junta of California bioinformaticians to replace BioPython with something we like better, is proceeding interestingly. So far we have discussed the following issues:
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- what license? (BSD)
- what focus? (sequence manipulation & parsing)
- what about binary extensions? (focus on API, provide fast implementations where appropriate, but …
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