Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:47:57 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@daemonnews.org> To: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za> Cc: chat@freebsd.org, advocacy@freebsd.org, janet@sanbi.ac.za Subject: Re: Bioinformatics Open Source Conference, 17-18 Aug, San Diego Message-ID: <20000727134757.A34437@klapaucius.zer0.org> In-Reply-To: <20000727122855.B414@fling.sanbi.ac.za>; from wjv@cityip.co.za on Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 12:28:55PM %2B0200 References: <20000727122855.B414@fling.sanbi.ac.za>
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On 2000-07-27 12:28 +0200, Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za> wrote: > > Bioinformatics is a 100% Unix-dominated field - one of the few > remaining. It is about to become a Very Big Thing indeed. Unless I > (and others in my position) do some advocacy of FreeBSD as a stable, > secure, standard platform, it is likely to be a Linux-dominated field > a few years from now. > > I've started working on ports of some bioinformatics tools and will > submit them in due course. I'd also like to provide some feedback > after BOSC if anyone is interested. (Maybe I could get Daemon News > interested?) I think you could get Daemon News interested! If the conference yields information of potential relevance to BSD, drop us a line at articles@daemonnews.org with an outline of your topic. Personally, I would love to see the bioinformatics algorithms and software distributed as open source. Anything that is more of a weapon against Celera's proprietary attitude toward the human genome is a huge benefit! Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Heisenberg might have been here. mailto:gsutter@daemonnews.org PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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