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A comment on Seq – A Language for Bioinformatics.

Re:Seq – A Language for Bioinformatics by xvilka on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @12:10PM (#22108831)
Why not just contribute to BioJulia[1][2] instead? It is a more mainstream language but the one that fits computational tasks better than Python.

[1] https://biojulia.net/

[2] https://github.com/BioJulia

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Re:Seq – A Language for Bioinformatics by brofallon on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @03:43PM (#22111331)
As a full-time bioinformatician I'm totally excited about Julia for bioinformatics. Currently BioJulia needs some pretty serious work before it can be used for routine bioinformatics tasks, for instance there's no good support for the CRAM format. Nonetheless if some of this basic functionality were implemented I wouldn't be surprised to see much greater adoption
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