They wrote the fastest parallelized BAM parser in D

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 30 March 2015 at 18:04:58 UTC, george wrote:
>
>> .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.
>>
>> --
>> Paulo
>
> Though when it comes to open source bioinformatics projects, 
> Perl and Python have a large foothold
> among most most bioinformaticians. Most utilities that require 
> speed are often written in C and C++ (BLAST, HMMER, SAMTOOLS 
> etc).
>
> I think D stands a good chance as a language of choice for 
> bioinformatics projects.
>
> George

Yes on the server side and UNIX based research.

However, I have learned in the last years that Windows based 
systems are also used a lot, specially in controlling robots and 
doing the first processing steps and visualization.

At least in commercial research.

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Paulo