-------- Mensaje reenviado -------- Asunto: Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] BioSmalltalk Fecha: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 20:53:05 -0500 De: Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas <offray@riseup.net> Para: pharo-users@lists.gforge.inria.fr Hi, I just found this old mail. I know that BioSmalltalk is well and advancing and I have a friend who works on biocomputing. I Saw the Google Code page of the project, but as a not-programmer I found difficult to understand what is the "selling point" of Biosmalltalk for a biologist... Anyway I'm just curious about which new experience brings Smalltalk to old fields. In my own case, making my notebook for data narratives and visualization has been very enriching and even if there are external tools in other ecosystems to work on it (pandas, Jupyter, LaTeX), the integration with them inside a moldable and modifiable tool is hard to beat. Cheers, Offray El 15/03/12 a las 07:32, Hernán Morales Durand escribió:
Dear all,
It's been two years since I've started to work in bioinformatics with Smalltalk. It has been a difficult decision because the quality and amount of bioinformatics libraries is absolutely amazing, but I've received a lot of support from the main researchers at the Institute of Genetics where I'm working in Argentina.
Now the initial step for a BioSmalltalk release is done. I hope the FOSS community receive this pre-release as the basis for future enhacements for bioinformatics with any Smalltalk flavor. Although in the short-term it is unlikely for a BioSmalltalk to reach the users, maturity and competitive level of major Bio* toolkits (BioPerl, BioPython, BioRuby or BioJava), it could take too many years more if I continue this work alone. However, BioSmalltalk was not conceived to replace or defeat any other similar packages, but to provide to the bioinformatics community the features of a pure object system. So feel free to spread the word for all bioinformaticians, newcomers, developers, or life scientists, for helping in any way and discovering why Smalltalk is such a special environment.
This release was implemented in Pharo 1.3 custom Core, but cross Smalltalk portability was a priority. I'm working now to release versions for GemStone, Squeak and VisualWorks is there is enough interest. Everybody is welcome to contribute.
You may download a pre-compiled release from the project page: http://code.google.com/p/biosmalltalk/
Best regards,
Hernán