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by geoffjentry 5y ago
> that's easily understood by others reading it? The problem in these discussions always comes back to "others" aren't a monolithic entity. Different people find different things to be readable vs not. Different peopl
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by geoffjentry 5y ago
They usually last years as it takes that long to get enough participants to have enough power. There were so many participants, that wasn't necessary here.
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by geoffjentry 5y ago
> There’s a certain base level of complexity that can be hard to abstract away 100% and a conclusion I came to far too long into my tenure in the bioinformatics workflow domain. It is also why I soured a bit on some of the GA4GH efforts
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by geoffjentry 5y ago
> I don't think that a single one of these was meant to be used by wetlab biologists Speaking for myself, we didn't target wetlab biologists with WDL but we did target "non-programmers" as MontyCarloHall described.
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by geoffjentry 5y ago
That's a big part of it. And I say this as someone who played a heavy role in the development of one of the named DSLs. Yes we had that exact intention and exact unintended outcome. There's another part of it as well. Bioinformati
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by geoffjentry 5y ago
People underestimate how much compute genomics research chews up. The cloud companies (heck, even the CPU/GPU companies!) are for the most part trying to meet the researchers where they are instead of providing proprietary tools. For t
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by geoffjentry 5y ago
Also academic research, but yes. These workflow orchestration tools are ubiquitous in the bioinformatics space. A lot mores than things like Airflow and the like.
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by geoffjentry 5y ago
Use of Big Cloud is very common in this space, in particular AWS.
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by geoffjentry 5y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. That particular opening was filled, there's a new one open and I'll link that. I updated the original post but for reference: https://bit.ly/3xv3uOC
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by geoffjentry 5y ago
Foundation Medicine | Full-time | Boston, MA | Hybrid Onsite/Remote (see below) | https://www.foundationmedicine.com My group at Foundation Medicine transforms data into products that drive cancer research. This provides a
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by geoffjentry 5y ago
Foundation Medicine | Full-time | Hybrid (see below) | https://www.foundationmedicine.com My group at Foundation Medicine transforms data into products that drive cancer research. This provides a real impact improving and extend