On Wednesday 23 January 2008 09:25, Sergey Mkrtchyan wrote:
On January 23, 2008 12:00:51 pm Dave Howorth wrote:
If you're a biophysicist who expects to make much use of computers, I'd concentrate on learning Perl or Python rather than [bash] shell. IMHO, you'll find them more useful when you interact with other tools or do more complicated tasks and either can do much the same as bash.
I'm in computational biophysics (Monte Carlo simulations), so yes, I use that a lot. I use C for coding, so I actually have to write it in a way to get the output already in a specific format I need, but I also have some files which are already generated (and it takes a while to generate them), so I was looking for ways to get them sorted out...
Make a mockery of my mockery, will you! How do you come to be doing this work in the astronomy department??
Thanks for the advice, I'll definetely be looking into that!
Dave is right, of course (though I'm not sure I think the choice was all that appropriate), genomics folks use BLAST. But the field is moving fast, so you need to keep on top of the developments. E.g., BLAT does what BLAST does, but claims to be 50 times faster (not too suprising, given the simple-minded representation it uses and the fact that it's written in Perl).
Cheers, -- Sergey Mkrtchyan, PhD Student @ Department of Physics & Astronomy, Faculty of Science, University of Waterloo
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