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Bioinformatics Zen
Personal blog · bioinformaticszen.com/postscienceprogramming
Bioinformatics Zen is a personal blog at bioinformaticszen.com about science and programming. Since 2008, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “What's the point of publishing?”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Most-linked posts?
- What's the point of publishing?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-02-27
What Hacker News says?
Submitted We're wasting money by only supporting gzip for raw DNA files as a story · 43 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's the point of writing good scientific software? as a story · 40 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bioinformatics software is a disgrace to our field as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Organised bioinformatics experiments with Datamapper as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I develop as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simple functional programming in R as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted You can't rely on LLMs to understand the grain of your data as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fear and self-loathing: getting old in tech as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A problem in bioinformatics: we often don't even know what we want as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software development, the happy path, and confirmation bias as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's the point of publishing? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What the point of publishing? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on presenting software as a poster at a conference. as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted BioRuby and Ruby on Rails: Active BioRecords as a story · 1 points
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