Archive for the ‘Python’ Category
Creating your own JSON Endpoints for Bio Web Services: Basics
Currently major biological databases use the SOAP/WSDL framework to provide the web-services where communication happens through exchange of XML bits. Now in most of programming language you have SOAP/WSDL clients such as SOAP4R and Savon in Ruby, SOAPy, ZSI, SUDS, and soaplib [...]
Scientific computing ready cloud service
A new cloud service provider PiCloud is in town. PiCloud’s cloud-computing platform is a Python centric service which can be accessed by importing PiCloud’s cloud library in your Python scripts. User can leverage the power of the cloud in 3 [...]
Visual High Performance Computing in Python
Lack of abstraction remained biggest bottleneck for High-Performance Computing(HPCs), as Daniel Reed points To date, attempts to develop higher level programming abstractions, tools and environments for high-performance computing have largely failed. There are many reasons for this failure, but I [...]
New Python Licence
CRITICAL COMMENTARY. You agree that you will not create, read, provide comments for, post, publish, or otherwise propagate, or encourage others to create, read, publish, or otherwise propagate any unauthorized critical commentary on the contents quality, or coding style of [...]
Python is moving to Mercurial
According to latest email from Guido van Rossum in Python developer mailing list, Python will be adopting Distributed Revision Control System (DVCS) based on Mercurial (Hg). Rossum suggests To me, the advantages of using *some* DVCS are obvious. At PyCon, [...]
Biopython Paper in Bioinformatics
Official publication for Biopython (“Biopython: freely available Python tools for computational molecular biology and bioinformatics”) has appeared today on Bioinformatics journal website. Paper is freely available here for download, and next time when you mention about Biopython don’t forget to [...]
Python and Frontiers in Neuroinformatics
For Python enthusiasts this may be a good news, open access journal Frontiers in Neuroinformatics is hosting a special section on Python in neuroscience. Whole section highlights application of Python programming in neuroscience and neuroinformatics with focus on Image via [...]
