[BioRuby] Bio-Incanter

[Matteo Picciolini]

Hi guys . I write a simple wiki with two examples to use bio-incanter .
https://github.com/cerbero/bioruby-incanter/wiki
Enjoy !

2012/8/8 Ben Woodcroft <donttrustben at gmail.com>

> Hi guys, sounds cool on the face of it to me, thanks. Congrats to Matteo.
>
> Annoyingly http://data-sorcery.org is being difficult to access for me.
> Any
> chance you could add a simple example(s) to the README or wiki?
>
> On 7 August 2012 23:23, Francesco Strozzi <francesco.strozzi at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi guys,
> > after having played for a while with Clojure and Incanter
> > (http://www.incanter.org/), we thought it was nice to have a Ruby gem
> > to access such a great library, so I would like to point out a new
> > BioGem called Bio-Incanter https://github.com/cerbero/bioruby-incanter
> > .
> > This gem was started by Matteo Picciolini, a bioinformatician working
> > in my group here in Italy. He's at the first contribution in the
> > BioRuby world, so be nice!
> >
> > The gem it's a JRuby wrapper around the Incanter library to provide
> > nice and powerful functions to create plots and graphs for numerical
> > and statistical analyses.
> > Look at the specs to see what methods are available, but basically all
> > the common plotting functions are covered, including image export in
> > PNG, JPG or PDF format. There is also a "view" method that can let you
> > open the graphs in real time and see what you are plotting, a nice
> > function for scripts or IRB sessions.
> > Even if you don't know Clojure that's not a problem, the gem takes
> > care of everything and includes a ready to use Jar with both Clojure
> > and Incanter.
> >
> > I think this kind of gems show how JRuby can facilitate the life of a
> > bioinformatician, using existing solutions that just work and
> > providing the best out of (Bio)Ruby and the JVM.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Francesco
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