They wrote the fastest parallelized BAM parser in D

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 30 March 2015 at 06:50:19 UTC, george wrote:
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> http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/02/18/bioinformatics.btv098.full.pdf+html
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> and a feature
> http://google-opensource.blogspot.nl/2015/03/gsoc-project-sambamba-published-in.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+GoogleOpenSourceBlog+(Google+Open+Source+Blog)
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> D may hold a sweet spot in bioinformatics where you often 
> require quick turnaround (productivity) , raw speed and agility.

.NET actually already has a foothold in bioinformatics, specially 
in user facing software and steering of reading equipments and 
robots.

So D's needs a story over C# and F# (alongside WPF for data 
visualization) use cases.

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Paulo