[Bioperl-l] Speed bumps

Francis Ouellette francis@bioinformatics.ubc.ca
Wed, 27 Nov 2002 00:14:19 -0800


 > You maybe interested to hear that two people not 1 million miles
 > away from this list or Bioperl are hoping to write a book which is
 > more user-guide like that describes the core area of Bioperl.
 > I assumme this book would be useful ;).


btw, for those not in the loop, and from what I hear, the authors will
be Jason and Ewan. It should also have some cute animal on the
cover, without telling which publisher it will be :)

Yes, useful indeed, and a great contribution to the comunity!

thanks in advance guys!

f.

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Ewan Birney wrote:

> thanks Nat. That is great feedback. i read most of the feedback being
> 
> 
> "more documentation, but with a different focus - ie, on a User who wants
> to get things done"
> 
> 
> I also read some of it as
> 
> 
> "Ensure that all module documentation clearly flags the role of the module
> and indicates where a user should be looking"
> 
> 
> and finally we should probably unify the *documentation* of PrimarySeqI,
> SeqI, Seq etc in SeqI and Seq and make PrimarySeqI and Seq have a clearly
> flagged "this is only for pro's" type documentation. I will roll this one
> in at last for 1.2
> 
> 
> 
> 
> You maybe interested to hear that two people not 1 million miles away from
> this list or Bioperl are hoping to write a book which is more user-guide
> like that describes the core area of Bioperl. I assumme this book would be
> useful ;).
> 
> 
> ewan
> 
> 
> 
> 
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