[BioPython] "Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills"
Jeffrey Chang
jchang@SMI.Stanford.EDU
Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:38:15 -0800 (PST)
> Dinu signs me up as an author:
> > Seriously, what makes it so hard to assemble a few minds from
> > this list to spend a few weeks working on one chapter each,
> > with somebody else plus a publisher like O'Reilly doing the
> > editing?
Rather than lack of talent, it's probably more the lack of time and lack
of a front person to drive the thing. I talked to David Ascher once, and
it seems that writing a book requires someone to make it their labor of
love and push the project through to completion.
Jeff