Biohaskell

bioinformatics and haskell

Updated software versions available

I’ve just uploaded new versions of various software to HackageDB.  If you have cabal-install on your system, it should now be possible to do e.g. cabal install flowsim to automatically download and compile the program and its dependencies.
bio-0.4.6: A bioinformatics library
The library provides functions and data structures to work with various kinds of bioinformatics data.  [...]

Tools for pyrosequencing analysis

I recently did a brief presentation of the set of tools I’ve developed for analyzing pyrosequences (the Roche 454 variety).  Nothing spectacular, just an overview of various ways of slicing and dicing SFF files using tools written in Haskell.  For lack of a better place to put it, I’ll drop my slides below.
flowers

A (too) brief Biohaskell presentation

I was recently in Trondheim, and got an opportunity to present Haskell to an audience of bioinformaticians.  Alas, it is hard to describe Haskell in all its glory to the uninitiated in forty-five minutes, and especially when I also wanted to talk a bit about the application to bioinformatics.  I left in the belief that [...]