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Thanks

Animesh — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:26:24 -0400

Thanks Dan, tried but failed. Seems like I am having problem configuring cheetah.

Galaxy in Windows

danb — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:49:47 -0400

Galaxy will run in Windows with a little bit of effort. Take a look at http://g2.trac.bx.psu.edu/wiki/GalaxyInWindows for some advice.

Galaxy

Animesh — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 13:30:19 -0400

Seems like you having a good time Greg :)
Hey has anyone got Galaxy working in windows via MSYS? If yes, please share the steps.

Tutorial is good

Duncan — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:33:54 -0400

Thanks Greg, the tutorial you mentioned is very good.

Reinvention...

jamestaylor — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:19:27 -0400

Indeed, An admission of guilt! Meant as a joke of course. Every speaker up there committed several of the "sins" to various extents. We all do. Just need to be better at understanding when it is right to do so, when the benefits outweigh the drawbacks. Unfortunately, while there are existing (often open source) tools for many use cases, rarely have they really been designed with extension in mind. Which means it is easier (and generates a much better final product) to start from scratch. Of course, if you then don't learn the lesson and design for reuse, *that* is a major sin.

Besides, I could just as easily have said "revolutionize" instead of "reinvent".

Thanks.

nuin — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:08:58 -0400

Thanks.

PDF of sins? Try slideshare...

Duncan — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:21:06 -0400

ah yes, Carole is a powerpoint slideware jockey. try http://www.slideshare.net/dullhunk/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-bioinformati...

PDF?

nuin — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:55:02 -0400

PDF?

No powerpoint around.

Seven Sins Slides

Duncan — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:40:52 -0400

If anyone is interested, the seven sins slides are here.

Reinventing the wheel is

ejain — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:50:42 -0400

Reinventing the wheel is fine -- provided the reinventing isn't done out of ignorance, but with a good understanding of the existing wheels :-)

I only caught the last 10-15

Greg — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:06:37 -0400

I only caught the last 10-15 minutes of the talk, and one of the sins mentioned was don't reinvent the wheel. Ironically the next speaker, James Taylor admitted that Galaxy was reinventing web based data integration for bioinformatics :) On a general note, I don't have a problem anymore with reinventing the wheel, it is the mission of academia to explore solutions to the same problem from many different perspectives.

Oh Vienna!

Duncan — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 05:31:15 -0400

Carole is giving a talk on the seven deadly sins of bioinformatics. Should be interesting and provocative... I'm not there this year, so keep us posted!