[Biojava-l] Re: [Bioperl-l] BioInformatics toolbox.

[Heikki Lehvaslaiho]

Dear m. autopost,

This discussion is turning into a quite interesting one. 
Do you think you could introduce yourself. ;-)
We usually use our full names.

	-Heikki
	

autopost wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
> Thanks for responding to my question about open source projects working
> towards creating tools/applications.
> 
> I'm all for keeping an open philosophy.  BioJava, BioPerl, The Apache
> projects, SourceForge.net, all great places that help accelerate the
> development process so we can get the results we need.
> 
> It occurs to me that there may be more users than there are
> programmers.  So, I'm looking to find out if there is a suite of tools that
> are "ready out of the box" and don't require writing scripts,...  I don't
> think such a thing exists (correct me if I'm wrong).  So, I'm looking to
> find people interested in creating such a project.  Or, learn more about
> what some of the commonalities are among the tasks people are trying to do.
> 
> When I think of tools, I don't mean scripts - rather something that is GUI
> based that can be run and is intuitive.  Scripts usually aren't
> intuitive.  When I hear scripts, I think of many scripts that have to be
> run one after that other.  Even this is something that would be good in a
> gui - something to manage the repetitive tasks.
> 
> As I said, I'm all for the open philosophy.  I just think that having a
> workbench/toolbox that works out of the box is what's missing.  A
> Scientist's, BioInformatician's, or Research Assistant's time would be
> better spent doing research rather than doing (or learning) programming, or
> learning an API/SDK.
> 
> If an open-source toolbox (gui based, not script) existed, perhaps those
> doing research could focus more of their efforts on research, rather than
> writing scripts around BioPerl, BioJava.
> 
> HOWEVER, I believe whatever gui tools/workbench is created, BioPerl and
> BioJava are excellent SDK's/libraries to use as the building blocks.
> 
> Thoughts?   If anyone wants to contact me directly, I welcome that.  I'm
> more than interested to hear what people are trying to do with these
> libraries, what they want to automate, how they want things automated.....
> 
> m.
> 
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