This is interesting; thanks for sharing! I have been curious about the adoption of Rust in computational biology. I know that the folks at Saint Jude's [1] are also using Rust for their 'omics research.
I'm building a structural bio crate system in rust (na_seq, bio_files, bio_apis, dynamics and some more specialized). No one is using it AFAIK other than myself. I am using it to build a GUI multi-purpose structural bio GUI program called Molchanica.
Note that this doesn't have much overlap with the traditional bioinformatics workflows like the OP (Rosland), or the one you linked to seem to be focused on.
Hate to agree, but it is true. For a while, I think, the main sequencing framework was in perl (Bioperl). Not sure what was best for structures - possibly Biojava?
It is very tempting, though - 'just' make a nice, clean API in your favourite language (eg Haskell, Ruby, ...) and everyone will flock to use it! Maybe.
I'm not familiar with Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, but I am aware that Rosalind Franklin [1] was extremely important for our understanding of DNA, comparable to Watson/Crick, with whom she co-discovered the structure of DNA. So it seems "Rosalind" is at least very appropriate as a name for a genomics tool such as this.
Not to say the other names mentioned aren't also deserving of similar honors
[1] https://github.com/stjude-rust-labs
Note that this doesn't have much overlap with the traditional bioinformatics workflows like the OP (Rosland), or the one you linked to seem to be focused on.
It is very tempting, though - 'just' make a nice, clean API in your favourite language (eg Haskell, Ruby, ...) and everyone will flock to use it! Maybe.
Uhh... are there stochastic genomics pipelines?
Not to say the other names mentioned aren't also deserving of similar honors
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin
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