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Are these tools really used by disease labs?

• Fomite 7y ago
  Yes. I run an infectious disease modeling lab - while I don't use these tools, I know people who do. In my lab, we use R, Numpy, SciPy, StochPy, etc. You could also just see about donating directly to a lab at a nearby university.
  • yread 7y ago
    Scary username!
  • zhdc1 7y ago
    What are some of the R libraries that your team uses? I wouldn't mind donating some time to help with bug fixes. I have no idea though which R libraries/projects are being used.
    • Fomite 7y ago
      Lets see... survival, parallel/snow, Amelia2, nlme,vioplot,ggplot2 and deSolve are the big ones.
• DangerousPie 7y ago
  In my anecdotal experience almost all new comp bio methods are implemented and used in R. Python is starting to become a bit more common but is still the minority. When performance matters people sometimes go for C/C++. I have never seen anyone actually using Julia but I guess there may be one or two.