Current developments…
In my vacation, I experimented with phantom types for the Sequence data type. Bascially, we want nucleotide and protein sequences to have the same representation, and mostly use the same algorithms, but sometimes we need to distinguish them, so as not to inadvertently treat a protein as a nucleotide sequence. A more detailed writeup is in the works, but currently, I’ve pushed the darcs repo to http://malde.org/~ketil/biohaskell/biolib-phantom/ so if everything works out, this will be the next release (0.4). (Note to self: we now have a stable and a development branch. Almost like a serious and all grown up software project. Professionality – Yay!)
Also, since short reads are all the rage, and my flower program appears to be used a bit, I’ve done a quick writeup of its features and use as a static page. I’ll try to keep it updated as things progress. Popularity – Yay!
Finally, I got some help compiling everything on some less mainstream operating systems (“Windows”, I think it is called). Mostly, things appear to work, and some improvements – albeit portability-neutral ones – were made. Portability – Yay!.
