Yesterday I met with folks at Lawrence Berkeley labs. The PI entered the room, full of energy and clearly ducking briefly out of the fray to speak with us. Part of the discussion revolved around microarray experiments. We’ve all heard about how notoriously...

One of the things I keep wanting in DTrace’s D language but isn’t there (right?) is a richer set of string comparison functions. Ideally I want full regular expression functionality, so that I can predicate actions on, say, regex matches of a class...

It’s a question we face as test-driven ruby programmers: Should we use mock objects or real objects in our tests?Both approaches have trade-offs, and their biggest downsides both have to do with wasting programmer time. If you test with real objects,...

Now and again, you hear the concern that bioinformatics will fail to “fulfill its promise”. I find this statement to be both a bit scary and a little preposterous. Scary because the success of the field will have an effect on my own personal success....

Yesterday I met with folks at Lawrence Berkeley labs. The PI entered the room, full of energy and clearly ducking briefly out of the fray to speak with us. Part of the discussion revolved around microarray experiments. We’ve all heard about how notoriously...

One of the things I keep wanting in DTrace’s D language but isn’t there (right?) is a richer set of string comparison functions. Ideally I want full regular expression functionality, so that I can predicate actions on, say, regex matches of a class...

Moses Hohman wrote an interesting post about the "once made" promises of bioinformatics.He posted his perspectives about this topic, with special emphasis on how to fill the gap between users & developers in the bioinformatics software development process....