From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jul 27 13:48:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from klapaucius.zer0.org (klapaucius.zer0.org [204.152.186.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0814337B92E; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:48:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gsutter@zer0.org) Received: (from gsutter@localhost) by klapaucius.zer0.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA34747; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:47:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gsutter@zer0.org) X-Authentication-Warning: klapaucius.zer0.org: gsutter set sender to gsutter@zer0.org using -f Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:47:57 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter To: Johann Visagie 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> References: <20000727122855.B414@fling.sanbi.ac.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000727122855.B414@fling.sanbi.ac.za>; from wjv@cityip.co.za on Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 12:28:55PM +0200 Organization: daemonnews Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2000-07-27 12:28 +0200, Johann Visagie 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