[bip] Blog post on bioinformatics and Python

[Leighton Pritchard]

Hi Nathan,

On 16/09/2008 10:25, "Nathan Harmston" <iwanttobeabadger at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> why dont we start a google project, call it BiP and post code

Because if your aim is to build a general purpose bioinformatics library, it
might be more efficient and sensible to re-use, benefit from and build upon
the pre-existing open-source Biopython, contributing the changes and
extensions you think necessary, rather than to duplicate the available
functionality from scratch in a competing and, if history is any guide,
divergently-incompatible project?

Particularly if you have a stated desire to re-use a common, tested code
base for research...

By the time you've got a stable, robust set of general purpose libraries
that matches the functionality currently available in Biopython, might you
have been able to add the extra functionality you desire to Biopython
itself?  And even if you don't like the interface, you could probably get
used to it in less time than it takes to get everyone involved to agree on a
different one for the new libraries... ;)

L.

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