Well, when they come out with mosquitoes carrying a possible HIV vaccine, feel free to jump to the front of the line. The subjects most likely did not know if they were placebo and they knew they would be subjected to infection either way. There is no possible way they could have known the efficacy of the vaccine.
Before being a pedantic asshole, make sure what you are saying is correct. Greedy is only needed if the entire regex chunk may match more than once./pedantic asshole
I went from a career working in life sciences to programming because I was sick of science and lab work. Plus my new job paid twice what my old job did. Now I work as a bioinfromatics programmer. So, in the end, I have combined the two.
You do not need to be a 'bioinformaticist' to need or employ bioinformatics. In my opinion (which is based in large part on observation) so called 'bioinformaticists' are threatened by any tool that allows bench-scientists to easily perform meaningful analysis of their data.
Funny, I was going to write something about the grizzled biostatician and awk but decided against it.
There is some truth in what you say. However, bioinformatics is not limited to statisticians and the like. There are loads of bench scientists out there who need to analyze their data and find that Excel is not enough and high end statistical programs are way, way to much. These same people have no idea what a 'Hidden Markov modeler' is or what a Viterbi algorithm calculates and have no interest in a 'massive simulation during halpotype reconstruction' (I have worked in life sciences for 15 years, bioinformatics for 5 and have never heard of any of those things - except for Markov thanks to Slashdot trolls Marque_Off and y77 and I do know a little about haplotype reconstruction but not the 'massive simulation' part ). Likewise, these scientists are not going to be developing new algorithms. For every biostatician out there, there are probably 100 bench scientists with a pile of data on their desk that needs some analysis.
For these scientists, Perl offers a great deal of power in a form that is manageable and understandable. They do not have to immediately deal with a strongly typed language or classes or object orientation or even compilation. The non-programmer can write something useful to them quickly without the learning curve that too many languages have.
There are a lot of reasons but the short answers are regexes and the fact that non-programmers can get started quickly. Plenty of sharp minds think "If I could only sort throw this text and do this...." Perl lets them do that. You'd be amazed at the biology you can uncover with 50 lines of code and 50 megs of sequence. (If they don't 'use strict' though, plenty of comical things can happen.)
If your chance of dying in a given year is 1 in 100 and sleeping a few extra hours increases this chance be 50% then your chance of dying is 1.5 in 100.
I would like to see some more in depth books about programming, bioinformatics and statistics. So far, the only books out there - that I know about - are pretty basic.
We just started beta testing our product. Our beta testers have to sign a 15 page document that states, among other things, that they do not own the rights to any features or improvements they suggest. Of course signing any sort of agreement is disincintive so we offer our product free to them once we release.
I suspect the same would be true of the terapin mine. (Which, BTW, is a terrible name...
And misspelled, I think they meant terrapin. Course it could be some clever word play, but I'm not sure where the tera comes in and the turtle is plain as day.
Limewire lets you watch the stream of search terms as people search for things. Just watch it for a few minutes and it becomes obvious that peer to peer is mainly used for porn.
I've never used BearShare but I bet it's the same.
Public universities subscribe to thousands of journals. I don't think the journal publishers should be forced to create and pay for web sites just so the scientist doesn't have to leave his desk to get a paper. They can go to the library like everyone else has been doing for the last 100 or more years.
It seems that even some scientists are not immune from becoming whiny and lazy as a result of the internet making things more readily available.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, when they come out with mosquitoes carrying a possible HIV vaccine, feel free to jump to the front of the line. The subjects most likely did not know if they were placebo and they knew they would be subjected to infection either way. There is no possible way they could have known the efficacy of the vaccine.
Chimps don't write PHP code.
You're right. The code in Perl.
It stands for Perl. Always has, always will. Anyone who tells you differently is wrong, idiotic and a bigot.
What the hell is anorexic programming
That would be Perl.
Before being a pedantic asshole, make sure what you are saying is correct. Greedy is only needed if the entire regex chunk may match more than once. /pedantic asshole
I went from a career working in life sciences to programming because I was sick of science and lab work. Plus my new job paid twice what my old job did. Now I work as a bioinfromatics programmer. So, in the end, I have combined the two.
You do not need to be a 'bioinformaticist' to need or employ bioinformatics. In my opinion (which is based in large part on observation) so called 'bioinformaticists' are threatened by any tool that allows bench-scientists to easily perform meaningful analysis of their data.
Funny, I was going to write something about the grizzled biostatician and awk but decided against it.
There is some truth in what you say. However, bioinformatics is not limited to statisticians and the like. There are loads of bench scientists out there who need to analyze their data and find that Excel is not enough and high end statistical programs are way, way to much. These same people have no idea what a 'Hidden Markov modeler' is or what a Viterbi algorithm calculates and have no interest in a 'massive simulation during halpotype reconstruction' (I have worked in life sciences for 15 years, bioinformatics for 5 and have never heard of any of those things - except for Markov thanks to Slashdot trolls Marque_Off and y77 and I do know a little about haplotype reconstruction but not the 'massive simulation' part ). Likewise, these scientists are not going to be developing new algorithms. For every biostatician out there, there are probably 100 bench scientists with a pile of data on their desk that needs some analysis.
For these scientists, Perl offers a great deal of power in a form that is manageable and understandable. They do not have to immediately deal with a strongly typed language or classes or object orientation or even compilation. The non-programmer can write something useful to them quickly without the learning curve that too many languages have.
That is why Perl is popular in bioinformtics.
There are a lot of reasons but the short answers are regexes and the fact that non-programmers can get started quickly. Plenty of sharp minds think "If I could only sort throw this text and do this...." Perl lets them do that. You'd be amazed at the biology you can uncover with 50 lines of code and 50 megs of sequence. (If they don't 'use strict' though, plenty of comical things can happen.)
Java! -- Job Security!
I am the lead developer on a 200K line commercial bioinformatics program written in Perl. That's job security.
n/t
If your chance of dying in a given year is 1 in 100 and sleeping a few extra hours increases this chance be 50% then your chance of dying is 1.5 in 100.
I wouldn't worry too much about that.
When they come to raid your company, just reboot into linux, bsd, or whatever. Then ask, "What software?"
I would like to see some more in depth books about programming, bioinformatics and statistics. So far, the only books out there - that I know about - are pretty basic.
We just started beta testing our product. Our beta testers have to sign a 15 page document that states, among other things, that they do not own the rights to any features or improvements they suggest. Of course signing any sort of agreement is disincintive so we offer our product free to them once we release.
Search google for phrases on the mcwhortle page.
like this
Some of the sites have been indexed.
Actually, that quote was by Earnest Rutherford.
Christmas Eve dinner out: $250
/. at 5am on Christmas: worthless
12 beers: $50
Posting to
Hmmm...not my choice for a hindu name.
I am posting this (30 times) for the same reason why I do not want people to be able to read my posts from ten years ago. Damn, I was an idiot...
PS: I am compiling mysql 3.23.44 on a pII 200, so I have time to burn
I just typed a few domain names into networksolutions to see if they were taken. These were:
m
wtccollapses.com
wtcdestroyed.com
wtcfalls.co
Course, the profiteering already began with gasoline and no doubt it will continue.
I suspect the same would be true of the terapin mine. (Which, BTW, is a terrible name...
And misspelled, I think they meant terrapin. Course it could be some clever word play, but I'm not sure where the tera comes in and the turtle is plain as day.
Limewire lets you watch the stream of search terms as people search for things. Just watch it for a few minutes and it becomes obvious that peer to peer is mainly used for porn.
I've never used BearShare but I bet it's the same.
Speaking of big corporations and the sun:
"Since the beginning of time man has yearned to destroy the Sun. I will do the next best thing...block it out!" C.M. Burns
Public universities subscribe to thousands of journals. I don't think the journal publishers should be forced to create and pay for web sites just so the scientist doesn't have to leave his desk to get a paper. They can go to the library like everyone else has been doing for the last 100 or more years.
It seems that even some scientists are not immune from becoming whiny and lazy as a result of the internet making things more readily available.