[BioRuby] Announcing Bio-Affy

[Raoul Bonnal]

Amazing!

Yep, FFI is something we'll support :-)


On 05/12/11 12.51, "Pjotr Prins" <pjotr.public14 at thebird.nl> wrote:

> Rubyistas, 
> 
> I just released bio-affy, which is a Affymetrix microarray file format
> parser (CEL/CDF) for Ruby. The plugin uses both Ruby and C.
> 
> This Biogem is an FFI binding to R/Bioconductor's Affyio package:
> 
>   http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.2/bioc/html/affyio.html
> 
> What is interesting about this Biogem/BioRuby plugin is not only that
> it uses FFI to map C code to Ruby, but also fires up the R interpreter
> to support the Affyio internal function calls into Rlib.
> 
> The FFI binding also accesses internal C structs of my Affyio adapter.
> See the examples in
> 
>   https://github.com/pjotrp/bioruby-affy/blob/master/spec/bio-affy_spec.rb
> 
> Pj.
> 
> PS. We will create Biogem scaffolding for FFI support in the near
> future, as well as for SWIG and native Ruby extensions. FFI is
> interesting as it has good support across all Ruby versions
> (including JRuby).
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