*** Serge Gregorio wrote: |>> The only bad thing is that words like |>> BIOPHP [emphasis mine] pop up. |>> What happened to Biopython. Dueling it out |>> PHP versus Python. Whoah, this is really |>> degenerating. I need a better filter on my brain. | |> ("Dueling it out?" No more so than Perl vs |> Python....) I'll refrain from commenting on their |> grammar... | |The image that comes to mind by reading the above is that some |people engaged in some debate on the merits of using PHP vs Python for |bioinformatics. So what really happened, Greg? =) Greetings all, I'm finally back in Sydney after 7 gruelling days of science (ISMB + Tutorials + BOSC) and still recovering... So what happened at BOSC 2003 ? A lot of drinking :) Seriously, it was a great experience to finally meet a lot of the open-bio* developers in person and exchange ideas. I had the opportunity to introduce BioPHP in a 5 minute lightning talk. The project generated a fair amount of curiosity from people at BOSC, mainly because people are interested in using PHP to build bioinformatics web applications, no great surprise. The talks slides are here: http://www.tyrelle.net/public/2003/BOSC/foilgrp03.html I did make it clear that Sege and Sean started projects at roughly the same time and that these are currently being merged. Keep in mind I prepared these slides the night before, so apologies if there were any mistakes etc. Slightly more significant for the project as a whole was talking to Chris Dagdigian of the open-bio.org foundation. I discussed with him the possibility of BioPHP being supported by open-bio and the answer was definitely yes. That means mailing lists, cvs repositories, DNS and web hosting. He also offered biophp.open-bio.org if we want it ? Personally I think it sounds like a good offer, what do you all think ? And finally, that quote above is from Brad Chapman's BOSC blog (Brad being one of the main biopython developers). It was just stream of consciousness so I'd take it with a grain of salt :) In general the response to BioPHP was good, not "Why BioPHP ?" but "Tell me more"... _greg -- Greg Tyrelle (http://www.kinglab.unsw.edu.au/~greg) "Logic only gives man what he needs, magic gives man what he wants" - Tom Robbins