8 comments

  • semiinfinitely 14 minutes ago
    bioinformaticians have been making these useless bioinformatic-toolkit-in-my-favorite-programming-language repos for years
    • maxall4 1 minute ago
      Well, what else are we going to do while waiting for the bench scientists to finish collecting data?
    • gilleain 6 minutes ago
      Hate to agree, but it is true. For a while, I think, the main sequencing framework was in perl (Bioperl). Not sure what was best for structures - possibly Biojava?

      It is very tempting, though - 'just' make a nice, clean API in your favourite language (eg Haskell, Ruby, ...) and everyone will flock to use it! Maybe.

  • p4ul 2 hours ago
    This is interesting; thanks for sharing! I have been curious about the adoption of Rust in computational biology. I know that the folks at Saint Jude's [1] are also using Rust for their 'omics research.

    [1] https://github.com/stjude-rust-labs

  • bonsai_spool 42 minutes ago
    Didn't see a publication or preprint for this - is there one?
  • boron1006 25 minutes ago
    Lots of bad smells in this repo.
  • shauniel 58 minutes ago
    I would love to hear about what the sacrifices are, but this project really looks amazing.
  • Rijanhastwoears 8 minutes ago
    > A deterministic genomics engine with a compact memory footprint.

    Uhh... are there stochastic genomics pipelines?

  • peterfirefly 1 hour ago
    Should have called it Raymond.
    • flobosg 1 hour ago
      • cmpb 1 hour ago
        I'm not familiar with Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, but I am aware that Rosalind Franklin [1] was extremely important for our understanding of DNA, comparable to Watson/Crick, with whom she co-discovered the structure of DNA. So it seems "Rosalind" is at least very appropriate as a name for a genomics tool such as this.

        Not to say the other names mentioned aren't also deserving of similar honors

        [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin

        • flobosg 50 minutes ago
          > I'm not familiar with Margaret Oakley Dayhoff

          Then you’re one of today’s lucky 10,000. Any time!

  • qzgrid37 1 hour ago
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