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Fwd: [squeak-dev] [ANN] BioSmalltalk

stephane ducasse

Thu, Mar 15, 2012 1:53 PM

Begin forwarded message:

From: Hernán Morales Durand hernan.morales@gmail.com
Subject: [squeak-dev] [ANN] BioSmalltalk
Date: March 15, 2012 1:32:55 PM GMT+01:00
To: A friendly place where any question about pharo is welcome pharo-users@lists.gforge.inria.fr, beta@seaside.gemstone.com, vwnc mailing list vwnc@cs.uiuc.edu, The general-purpose Squeak developers list squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org
Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org

Dear all,

It's been two years since I've started to work in bioinformatics with
Smalltalk. It has been a difficult decision because the quality and
amount of bioinformatics libraries is absolutely amazing, but I've
received a lot of support from the main researchers at the Institute
of Genetics where I'm working in Argentina.

Now the initial step for a BioSmalltalk release is done. I hope the
FOSS community receive this pre-release as the basis for future
enhacements for bioinformatics with any Smalltalk flavor. Although in
the short-term it is unlikely for a BioSmalltalk to reach the users,
maturity and competitive level of major Bio* toolkits (BioPerl,
BioPython, BioRuby or BioJava), it could take too many years more if I
continue this work alone. However, BioSmalltalk was not conceived to
replace or defeat any other similar packages, but to provide to the
bioinformatics community the features of a pure object system. So feel
free to spread the word for all bioinformaticians, newcomers,
developers, or life scientists, for helping in any way and discovering
why Smalltalk is such a special environment.

This release was implemented in Pharo 1.3 custom Core, but cross
Smalltalk portability was a priority. I'm working now to release
versions for GemStone, Squeak and VisualWorks is there is enough
interest. Everybody is welcome to contribute.

You may download a pre-compiled release from the project page:
http://code.google.com/p/biosmalltalk/

Best regards,

Hernán

--
Hernán Morales
Institute of Veterinary Genetics (IGEVET).
National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET).
La Plata (1900), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Telephone: +54 (0221) 421-1799.
Internal: 422
Fax: 425-7980 or 421-1799.

Begin forwarded message: > From: Hernán Morales Durand <hernan.morales@gmail.com> > Subject: [squeak-dev] [ANN] BioSmalltalk > Date: March 15, 2012 1:32:55 PM GMT+01:00 > To: A friendly place where any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users@lists.gforge.inria.fr>, beta@seaside.gemstone.com, vwnc mailing list <vwnc@cs.uiuc.edu>, The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org> > Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org> > > Dear all, > > It's been two years since I've started to work in bioinformatics with > Smalltalk. It has been a difficult decision because the quality and > amount of bioinformatics libraries is absolutely amazing, but I've > received a lot of support from the main researchers at the Institute > of Genetics where I'm working in Argentina. > > Now the initial step for a BioSmalltalk release is done. I hope the > FOSS community receive this pre-release as the basis for future > enhacements for bioinformatics with any Smalltalk flavor. Although in > the short-term it is unlikely for a BioSmalltalk to reach the users, > maturity and competitive level of major Bio* toolkits (BioPerl, > BioPython, BioRuby or BioJava), it could take too many years more if I > continue this work alone. However, BioSmalltalk was not conceived to > replace or defeat any other similar packages, but to provide to the > bioinformatics community the features of a pure object system. So feel > free to spread the word for all bioinformaticians, newcomers, > developers, or life scientists, for helping in any way and discovering > why Smalltalk is such a special environment. > > This release was implemented in Pharo 1.3 custom Core, but cross > Smalltalk portability was a priority. I'm working now to release > versions for GemStone, Squeak and VisualWorks is there is enough > interest. Everybody is welcome to contribute. > > You may download a pre-compiled release from the project page: > http://code.google.com/p/biosmalltalk/ > > Best regards, > > Hernán > > > -- > Hernán Morales > Institute of Veterinary Genetics (IGEVET). > National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). > La Plata (1900), Buenos Aires, Argentina. > Telephone: +54 (0221) 421-1799. > Internal: 422 > Fax: 425-7980 or 421-1799. >