covid-19

[Boyd Duffee]

I've been keeping up to date with the latest XKCD comics [0] so that I stay well informed.

I see that today's hot topic in github [1] has over 300 repos, with the lion's share in javascript and python,

but none in perl or raku.  A lot of them are either vizualization or json parsing tools.

Looks like people prefer to present their models in Jupyter Notebooks, with at least one brave soul

working in C modelling with ODEs. I guess that with git repositories "trending" I'm now starting to understand

why they call them social coding networks and I see the importance of starring repos that you want promoted.

What I found more interesting was a blog post [2] by someone trying out BioPerl [3] for the first time.

It's just plotting spike protein sequence lengths from NCBI [4] data, but it feels more like analysis and less like presentation.

Thought I'd share.  Anybody else got something?

[0] https://xkcd.com/2281/

[1] https://github.com/topics/covid-19

[2] http://blogs.perl.org/users/zubenel/2020/03/extracting-coronavirus-sars-cov-2-spike-protein-sequences-with-bioperl.html

[3] https://bioperl.org/

[4] https://ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2020/02/03/rapid-access-2019-ncov/