confused What does pat brown's clustering stuff have to do with sequences? It is for microarray data. I guess...I don't understand what they are doing. (my top tip for micro array data if anyone is interesting is support vector machine stuff. David Haussler, over the hill from stamford at ucsc is up on this. It is neat).
Glad you like bioperl. Of course, it'd be nice to know who you are (?) Do you have a lot of contact with these pangeans? Are they oakland based or with david karp nr palo alto?
PS - I miss californian sunshine. UK in winter sucks. Anyone want to get me out over, please, hire me for a weekend!
I'm with you. Not that new... depends how clever the analysis is, which I doubt it is *super* clever...
If you want to see an opensource alternative to this, check out ensembl. We are pretty switched on over there (I am one the main programmers behind it).
This is easy to do ok at. Hard to do well at.
rant mode I like that slashdot has picked up on two genetics issues this week but they aren't giving credit to the open source efforts - they are concentrating on the commerical efforts. Bioperl/ ensembl/hmmer/wise/emboss are all really interesting opensource biology topics that are being not talked about...
Guys -- please pay attention to the public effort as well. The publically funded effort has sequenced *more* of the human genome than Celera currently and is due to (and is on course for) finishing it to Celera's standards in Spring 2000 - yup - only a couple of months away.
We also have a better grasp of what to do with it as well (I should know - I write alot of the software that people use for this).
Celera is making big noise because they are going to have to rethink their business plan (a weird effect of the public effort is to make celera more possessive of their supposed IP).
I think DNA Sequence patents should be allowed under extremely restrictive terms and with a very short expiry time (ie, 4 years).
Surely the point is that alot of compute is disappearing from the desktop and heading towards either the laptop or the server with a LAN in between.
Linux fits ideally with the server, and as people switch to more this sort of computing, the greater linux's role is. It is the change in people's computing attitudes that microsoft should be worried about, not the OS.
(BTW - I use linux on both the server and the laptop, but I know people who can't leave windows on their laptop, and that will remain for a while).
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Glad you like bioperl. Of course, it'd be nice to know who you are (?) Do you have a lot of contact with these pangeans? Are they oakland based or with david karp nr palo alto?
PS - I miss californian sunshine. UK in winter sucks. Anyone want to get me out over, please, hire me for a weekend!
Yo chris. You're too kind...
And bioperl is good 'cause of its sysadmin..
I posted further up, mentioning ensembl again.
talk/email soon...
If you want to see an opensource alternative to this, check out ensembl. We are pretty switched on over there (I am one the main programmers behind it).
This is easy to do ok at. Hard to do well at.
rant mode I like that slashdot has picked up on two genetics issues this week but they aren't giving credit to the open source efforts - they are concentrating on the commerical efforts. Bioperl/ ensembl/hmmer/wise/emboss are all really interesting opensource biology topics that are being not talked about...
Hmph.
ewan
Guys -- please pay attention to the public
effort as well. The publically funded effort has
sequenced *more* of the human genome than Celera
currently and is due to (and is on course for)
finishing it to Celera's standards in Spring 2000 - yup - only a couple of months away.
We also have a better grasp of what to do with
it as well (I should know - I write alot of the
software that people use for this).
Celera is making big noise because they are going
to have to rethink their business plan (a weird
effect of the public effort is to make celera
more possessive of their supposed IP).
I think DNA Sequence patents should be allowed
under extremely restrictive terms and with a very
short expiry time (ie, 4 years).
I reckon powerpoint is the big missing X.
I *still* use MS powerpoint. Everything else
linux.
Surely the point is that alot of compute is
disappearing from the desktop and heading towards
either the laptop or the server with a LAN in between.
Linux fits ideally with the server, and as people
switch to more this sort of computing, the greater
linux's role is. It is the change in people's
computing attitudes that microsoft should
be worried about, not the OS.
(BTW - I use linux on both the server and the laptop, but I know people who can't leave windows
on their laptop, and that will remain for a while).
If you write a compiler, does the amount of
code it prodcues (for, in my case, a C generating
compiler) count.
anyway - I go by number of ;
anyone want to compete on a number of *generated*
lines?