[bip] SciPy 2007 - Birds of a Feather - Biology

[Brandon King]

Nathan Harmston wrote:
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>    1. Need to establish python/biology community, via website,
>       biology-in-python mailing list, rss, blogs, etc.
>
> That would be a great idea, it think it would be great to be able to 
> post code/solutions and get it reviewed. Peer-review of tools could be 
> a great way of finding bugs in code and better ways of doing things 
> that are been done.
I think that is in an excellent idea.
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> Having a core set of "interfaces" for handling basic bioinformatics 
> objects would allow independent projects to share these basic objects. 
> I am sure others will describe this better and in more detail in the 
> near future.
>
> I think this would be a great idea...I think I already mentioned it in 
> a previous post. If we were to define a core small set of objects, 
> Intervals, Sequences, Features, Microarrays, Alignments 
> etc.......which larger projects can be built around, this would make 
> it much easier to integrate python projects and increase code reuse 
> across different projects.
Titus Brown and Chris Lee have been thinking about this for a while, so 
I'll let them respond (as Titus already has with his blog post; previous 
bip e-mail).
>  
>
>     I have agreed to setup the python/biology community site. There
>     are some ideas in the notes below and I will also be posting ideas
>     and requesting ideas for this in a future post.
>
>
> How about a trac/wiki with some kind of dpaste sort of functionality?
Trac and wiki is planned. I like the dpaste idea as well.

My plan is to get the wiki setup once Enthought has setup the account, 
so that we can start adding content. I plan to seed it with as much 
information as I can to really try to get it going. I will post another 
e-mail when I know more.

-Brandon