An introduction to scripting in Ruby for biologists
<p>Abstract</p> <p>The Ruby programming language has a lot to offer to any scientist with electronic data to process. Not only is the initial learning curve very shallow, but its reflection and meta-programming capabilities allow for the rapid creation of relatively complex applica...
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| description | <p>Abstract</p> <p>The Ruby programming language has a lot to offer to any scientist with electronic data to process. Not only is the initial learning curve very shallow, but its reflection and meta-programming capabilities allow for the rapid creation of relatively complex applications while still keeping the code short and readable. This paper provides a gentle introduction to this scripting language for researchers without formal informatics training such as many wet-lab scientists. We hope this will provide such researchers an idea of how powerful a tool Ruby can be for their data management tasks and encourage them to learn more about it.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c1fd9eb8cf79427890c7d5adc4a8023c2022-12-21T23:34:21ZengBMCBMC Bioinformatics1471-21052009-07-0110122110.1186/1471-2105-10-221An introduction to scripting in Ruby for biologistsLaw AndyAerts Jan<p>Abstract</p> <p>The Ruby programming language has a lot to offer to any scientist with electronic data to process. Not only is the initial learning curve very shallow, but its reflection and meta-programming capabilities allow for the rapid creation of relatively complex applications while still keeping the code short and readable. This paper provides a gentle introduction to this scripting language for researchers without formal informatics training such as many wet-lab scientists. We hope this will provide such researchers an idea of how powerful a tool Ruby can be for their data management tasks and encourage them to learn more about it.</p>http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/10/221 |
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