[BioRuby] We have 2 and 1/2 days of spare time. Can we help?

[Peter]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Anthony Underwood
<email2ants at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Please could I put in my plea for a +1 on (Next Generation sequence) NGS parsing.
> This field is becoming huge within bioinformatics and bioruby is lagging when it comes
> to tools to parse the date, specifically wrappers around the C functions found in
> samtools. I would have a go myself but have no experience in C so am sure others
> would do a better job.
>
> Thanks  Anthony

Anthony - Have you looked at Pjotr's recent work in BioLib to wrap the
samtools C API
in Ruby (and other languages)?

http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/biolib-dev/2010-August/000160.html

Peter