Franz Inc. interviewed Jeremy Wertheimer, founder of ITA Software, about why he used Lisp to build their software. The story can be found here:
http://www.franz.com/success/customer_apps/data_ mi ning/itastory.lhtml
http://www.biolisp.org has a lot of information about Lisp and bioinformatics on their site...resources and code that you can play with.
Franz Inc. also has a free "Basic Lisp Techniques" book that can be downloaded, and BioDB-Loader, a toolkit created by Peter Karp of SRI for loading and querying databases.
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Franz Inc. interviewed Jeremy Wertheimer, founder of ITA Software, about why he used Lisp to build their software. The story can be found here:_ mi ning/itastory.lhtml
http://www.franz.com/success/customer_apps/data
http://www.biolisp.org has a lot of information about Lisp and bioinformatics on their site...resources and code that you can play with. Franz Inc. also has a free "Basic Lisp Techniques" book that can be downloaded, and BioDB-Loader, a toolkit created by Peter Karp of SRI for loading and querying databases.