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Stories and comments across the archive that link to open-bio.org.

Stories · 3

  1. Sixth Bioinformatics Open Source Conference

    Developers · Biotech · · posted by timothy · from the you-can-build-us dept. · 19 comments
    Shipud writes "The sixth Bioinformatics Open Source Conference will take place this June in Detroit, MI. Open source licensed software has proven to be the most popular and useful for bioinformatics research. This includes the EMBOSS suite for sequence analysis, the Biopython; Bioperl, and Biojava collaborativelty constructed toolboxes; the ubiquitous RasMol and PyMol molecular visualization tools, and more, much more. Here is one opinion as to why open source and collaborative development have been such a raging success even at big pharma, despite the apparent IP hurdles."

  2. Open Source Bioinformatics Report

    Developers · Science · · posted by timothy · from the every-pair-of-genes-is-a-hand-me-down dept. · 2 comments
    An unnamed reader writes: " Bioinformatics.org has a story outlining recent activity in open source software development within the discipline of bioinformatics. The report covers a recent meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark called the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference, and describes a large number of projects and groups important to bioinformatics open source development. Most interesting was the appendix describing important online biological data sources. A student at Stanford University wrote the full report."

  3. Bioinformatics

    Science · Programming · · posted by michael · from the old-blue-eyes dept. · 105 comments
    tadghin pointed out this Newsweek article on bioinformatics, and also notes: "At O'Reilly, we just published our first bioinformatics book last week, Learning Bioinformatics Computer Skills, by Cynthia Gibas and Per Jambeck, and it immediately rocketed to the top of the Amazon Computer bestseller list. This definitely appears to be a new area for the computer industry that's just starting to hit people's radar big time. I've also made the point to VCs looking at distributed computation startups that what I see on sites like slashdot is a lot of movement by hackers towards new and interesting problems. And science looks a lot more interesting than some of the business computing that's been front and center the past couple of years. And the Biological Open Source Computing Conference I spoke at last year was definitely popping with ideas and excitement. Unfortunately, this year's conference is in Copenhagen, right before the O'Reilly open source convention, but I definitely urge slashdotters to check out this area. Demand for perl expertise is especially high."