The “hurting” Bioinformatics message I have seen
Is this one: It's 2024. Most of #bioinformatics is yet to come and the best we can offer future generations of scientists is idiosyncratic R-scripts, massive Nextflow pipelines and file formats such as FastQ? We have to do better. ( Fabian Klötzl ) https://genomic.social/@kloetzl/111772016843202526 And in the end of the day… it kinda makes sense. Why does it hurts? Roughly speaking, R is the “default language” of bioinformatics. Even I, a pythonic headbanger, use R in bioinformatics research. Nextflow is also getting this “defaultness” too. For those who don’t know, it is a technology that you can use to build (among other ones) data processing pipelines, and thus automate processes. Bioinformatics people have been using it a lot. “file formats such as FastQ” have been (again) the “default format files” for years, maybe decades. Personal interpretation (I may be wrong, please confirm it in the comments section): the message is that ...