Tim,
Thank you for your message.
GitHub is for managing projects as far as I know, I personnaly never
been
there, but browsing a little bit their homepage R is not in their top
10
popular langages ! May be I am wrong.
My proposal is not to create another project management website
platform,
other equivalent to GitHub are doing a great job.
A collaborative platform for sharing code sources could work either as
a
platform for a scripts/code "show case" or a mean by which people get
in
touch with each other so that they speed up their development using
what
others already did (using is also modifying and enriching the scripts
database).
I need more feedback on that issue, would you please (some of you who
did
not participated in this thread already) take two minutes of your time
to
tell if you find this idea useful or interesting or not.
Regards
Rad
2010/12/21 Tim Triche <tim.triche@gmail.com>
> it sounds like you're proposing something along the lines of GitHub
gists
> and/or StackOverflow for Bioconductor users.
>
> While I'm not against this idea, I wonder how much traction it would
get,
> since the Internet is practically a testament to wheel reinvention.
> (Reinventing wheels is not all bad -- if you're learning how to
build and
> balance wheels, it's kind of mandatory)
>
> In any event, good luck. The community could stand to have a more
> rough-and-tumble hub than the BioC website, if only for hashing out
good vs.
> bad ideas. Personally I put my code up on GitHub, communicate with
the
> relevant people, and see what happens...
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Radhouane Aniba
<aradwen@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi all, Hi arne,
>>
>> Well as I said in my first message, this is not intended to overlap
any of
>> Bioc services (website, forums, tutorials, workflows) that I found
very
>> well
>> done and useful by the way.
>> Well my point is that for new people getting involved in R/Bioc,
the
>> learning curve is different depending on each one capabilities. It
could
>> be
>> very helpful for everyone, even for "guru" R/Bioc developpers to
see what
>> other already did that seems to be suitable for a part of a
project. Just
>> a
>> word about tutorials, workflows and useful help in Bioc website;
like
>> every
>> bio* project (Bioperl, Biojava, Biopython..) when a project is
lunched and
>> when people start to get involved in, there is always "how to do"
sections
>> and lot of tutorials that developers put in front so that people
start to
>> practice and to get more familiar with the langage syntax and tips.
I
>> remeber when I was developing using Biojava, with my respect to
people
>> behing that do a great job, there is only a wiki page which
contains
>> several
>> helpful sections but this is only the top of the iceberg, such
projects
>> tends to evoluate exponentially and when a newbie start to get
interested
>> in
>> using a package or langage X, it is already a mature field and
people in
>> the
>> mailing lists and forum already speak a very hard t understand
jargon, may
>> be I am wrong, at least that was my case when I first started to
learn
>> biojava. Bioc is a relatively new, and more andmore used, and
except the
>> workflows and tutorials that exist in their website, this is for
sure othe
>> use cases and scenarios that some of us has already implemented in
order
>> to
>> publish a paper or to develop a project, a lot of projects overlap
in
>> their
>> biocomputational development parts, that's why I think personnaly
that
>> sharing knowledge on "how I did that" part or what workflow i
developed
>> used
>> existing package in Bioc could be very helpful in the sens that it
will
>> lead
>> automatically to save hours of developments and accelerate
research, this
>> is
>> the basics of knowledge sharing let's say, and this is how I came
to the
>> point that sharing codes for R and BioC is a crucial and very
helpful
>> topic.
>> Such platform that I have in mind has nothing to do with forums,
actually
>> people will be able to develop profile pages and write posts about
their
>> experience with R and Bioc, upload their presentations and posters
so that
>> all of us we can found directly the information we need instead of
>> spending
>> hours on the web looking for an information, it could be a very
small
>> portion of code, well commented and very clear, as it could be an
entire
>> workflow showing how to connect different bioc packages. I don't
see if I
>> am
>> enough clear about the idea but with all respect that i have to all
>> projects
>> related to bio, non of them(us) is able to imagine in advance all
possible
>> scenarios using a specific tool. One example could be more speaking
is
>> what
>> people behind Taverna package did developing myExperiment website,
may be
>> we
>> can look at it and imagine features to a collaborative platform.
>>
>> Any comment is welcome and thank you for answering.
>>
>> Radhouane
>>
>> 2010/12/21 <arne.mueller@novartis.com>
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > in principle this sounds good, but it seems there's much overlap
with
>> the
>> > bioconductor web-site that already offers, packages, workflows,
>> > documentation, tutorials and hands-on hints and discussion
(mailing
>> list)
>> > ...
>> >
>> > In my experience many packages are as abstract as possible
(IRanges and
>> > off-spring ...) whereas others are more tailored towards a
specific
>> need.
>> > Most of the code that I write is just "glue" to stick packages
together
>> in a
>> > workflow (or analysis), but it's not really re-usable workflow
stuff,
>> since
>> > it's often project specific, etc ... . I think there's only
limited
>> > abstraction beyond the package level that's really useful -
otherwise
>> I'd
>> > write a package ;-) .
>> >
>> > Sorry, don't want to be negative, but maybe I didn't get your
point. The
>> > only thing I'd really find useful is a web-based subscription
free forum
>> (I
>> > think this topic was briefly discussed at the last bioc
developers
>> > conference in Heidelberg, but I don't remember the outcome ;-).
>> >
>> > Maybe instead of setting up a new web-site you could join the
>> > bioc-developers and help improving their web-site (no offense,
after
>> getting
>> > used to the new web-site I really started liking it ;-)
>> >
>> > best,
>> >
>> > arne
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > *Radhouane Aniba <aradwen@gmail.com>*
>> > Sent by: bioconductor-bounces@r-project.org
>> >
>> > 12/21/2010 08:39 PM
>> > To
>> > bioconductor@r-project.org
>> > cc
>> > Subject
>> > [BioC] Idea that needs feedback
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi BioC users and contributors,
>> >
>> > In order to improve collaboration between scientists, computer
>> engineers,
>> > bioinformaticians working with R and Bioconductor, I would like
to see
>> how
>> > much among you here in the list, would be interested in
developing or
>> > making
>> > part of a website that plays the role of collaborative platform
for
>> > R/Bioconductor codes, packages, workflows and contributions, so
that we
>> > develop the "re-use" and "don't reinvent the wheel" spirit in one
hand,
>> and
>> > to put in practice a more collaborative work and interaction
between
>> people
>> > working on R/Bioconductor related projects.
>> >
>> > I already have experience in the development of such platforms
and
>> thought
>> > it could be useful and interesting to propose such initiative to
people
>> > like
>> > you and I working with R/BioC
>> >
>> > This is in no way a competitive or alternative approach to
Bioconductor
>> > mailing list but a complementary platform for sharing codes /
workflows
>> /
>> > analysis scenarios using R/BioC
>> >
>> > Would you please take a few moment to answer to this topic so
that I can
>> > have an idea on your position in regards of such initiative.
>> >
>> > Thank you
>> >
>> > Radhouane
>> >
>> > --
>> > *Radhouane Aniba*
>> > *Bioinformatics Research Associate*
>> > *Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
>> > Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology* *(CBCB)*
>> > *University of Maryland, College Park
>> > MD 20742*
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