SPUG: array(bio) meeting announcement -- XML: The Future Language of Biology

[Aaron Paul]

I'm not sure this is off topic, but I couldn't resist
pointing out that you may indeed use perl to calculate
the answers and perform your works, but as a way to
store or transmit data, as in the data in your hair
follicle, well, we saw xml and we said that it was
good.  

The great thing is that you wouldn't have to write an
entirely different suite of programs for each type of
cell or organism. You'd see in the metadata that this
is type tissue n of organism y and call a ready made
function without having to write different code to
parse each type of data.  I guess dna does this
without metadata, but instead substituting very
tedious mathematic complications.




--- Asim Jalis <asimjalis at acm.org> wrote:
> If I wanted to write some quick and dirty throwaway
> code that was
> going to be write-only and write-once I'd probably
> use Perl. So
> parsing my hair follicles last night it came as no
> surprise to me
> to notice: "#!/usr/local/bin/perl".
> 
> Asim
> 
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 11:40:15AM -0800, Don Shanks
> wrote:
> > Are you sure that it's not?
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-spug-list at pm.org
> [mailto:owner-spug-list at pm.org] On Behalf
> > Of Asim Jalis
> > Sent: Tuesday, 10 December, 2002 15:03
> > To: Michael R. Wolf
> > Cc: spug-list at pm.org
> > Subject: Re: SPUG: array(bio) meeting announcement
> -- XML: The Future
> > Language of Biology
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 02:39:39PM -0800, Michael
> R. Wolf wrote:
> > > "XML: The Future Language of Biology" Matthew T
> Zeigler, IBM Life 
> > > Sciences
> > 
> > If XML was so great our genetic code would be
> written in it.
> 
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