BHLog

The last few years, I’ve been working in bioinformatics, the science of taking the results of hard working computer scientists and applying it to the results of equally hard working biologists. You probably think this looks like an easy route to fame and fortune, and you’d be right. In fact, most bioinformaticists just string together some crusty old command line tools with Perl scripts, or even a bit of Java code, and call it a day.

To make things a bit more interesting - interesting to me, that is, the biologists won’t know the difference, and most comuter scientist are too busy teaching Java to web programmers to notice - I’m using Haskell instead. I don’t know why you are using Haskell, but I‘m using it because it put the fun back in programming for me. (I used to program C++, so it’s not like I need to do this for a living.)

Anyway - the intent is that I will document code here - especially when it is particularly neat or cool in some way. I’ll also discuss experiences with the competition, when I say crusty command line tools, I do have particular tools and particular crustiness in mind.