Re:Ask HN: Are there any software jobs in nature/animal cons...
by walleeee on Friday July 24, 2020 @05:46PM
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Hi Adnan. Unfortunately I'm only familiar with the situation in the U.S. Pakistan may have different agricultural practices and a different funding landscape. Here are a few links about the motivation and current state of the art if you want to read more.
There is a ton of software-oriented work involved, from robotics and embedded devices in the field, to data engineering (containerizing and automating pipelines in grid, cloud, and HPC environments), to web development (creating research portals), to simulation of growth processes and modeling yield as a function of genetic/physiological/environmental factors, etc. Python is very widely used for all of the above. Go not as much, but Singularity (Docker for HPC, basically) is written in Go iirc.
If you want to discuss more let me know and I'll contact you directly.
[0]: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/327/5967/818
[1]: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pce.12107
[2]: https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/66/18/5429/482901
[3]: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S13601385110020...
[4]: http://www.plantphysiol.org/cgi/doi/10.1104/pp.114.243519
There is a ton of software-oriented work involved, from robotics and embedded devices in the field, to data engineering (containerizing and automating pipelines in grid, cloud, and HPC environments), to web development (creating research portals), to simulation of growth processes and modeling yield as a function of genetic/physiological/environmental factors, etc. Python is very widely used for all of the above. Go not as much, but Singularity (Docker for HPC, basically) is written in Go iirc.
If you want to discuss more let me know and I'll contact you directly.