[BioPython] Biopython Citation

[Leighton Pritchard]

On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 21:11 +0100, Sebastian Bassi wrote:
> On 2/8/07, Leighton Pritchard <lpritc at scri.ac.uk> wrote:
> > The discussion on who is going to write it might be more...
> > interesting... <cough> ;)
> 
> I've been thinking in the same problem. I would like to collaborate on
> it. I could open a "Google doc" and then send you an invite so we
> could both write in the same online document, and add more people
> later if somebody is interested.
> Best,
> SB

I'd be very happy to collaborate on writing this sort of paper but, as
my own contributions to the code have been minuscule, I want to make
sure that the major contributors to, and developers of, the code base
are OK with that, and also that they take the lion's share of the
credit, regardless of how many words they put into the text.  I don't
want to be pushing myself forward at someone else's expense, taking
credit for work that I didn't do, or generating friction within the
community in arguments over who is, and who is not, named, and where
they are in the pecking order ;)

Michiel wrote:
> Currently, Biopython is undergoing some major improvements, for
> example 
> with the Blast parser and especially with the new Bio.SeqIO. I expect 
> that Biopython in two or three months will be a lot more transparent
> and 
> user-friendly than it is now. It may be worthwhile to postpone 
> submitting a Biopython paper until these improvements have made it
> into 
> a Biopython release.
> 
> Don't let that stop you from starting to write a paper, though :-).

With that in mind, I'd be glad to help in drawing up a framework for the
paper, and writing it, with a view to submitting after the next release,
possibly in May or June.  I've not used Google Docs before, but if you'd
like to set that up Sebastian, I'm interested to see how collaborative
writing works on it.

L.

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