• Question: Do any of use open source programing?

    Asked by powderfinger to Charlie, Eoin, Jemma, Julian, Steve on 17 Mar 2011.
    • Photo: Eoin Lettice

      Eoin Lettice answered on 16 Mar 2011:

      Hi powderfinger,
      yes, I use some opensource software for analysing results and doing some statistics. It’s very useful stuff!

      Eoin

    • Photo: Stephen Moss

      Stephen Moss answered on 16 Mar 2011:

      Hi Powderfinger

      Programming of any sort is far from anything I do. We are heavy computer users, but the closest I ever get to programming is writing the occasional macro in Word!

    • Photo: Charlie Ryan

      Charlie Ryan answered on 16 Mar 2011:

      hi powderfinger thanks for another Q!
      no i don’t really – i’ve tried before but never got that far with OS programmes. I use LateK a little (a word processing programme) i think that’s OS.

    • Photo: Julian Rayner

      Julian Rayner answered on 17 Mar 2011:

      I don’t, but lots of people I work with do. If you work on a disease like malaria, you are in it to help people, not make money. That’s why we believe strongly that everything we produce, be it code or DNA sequence, should be immediately and freely available to the rest of the world to see if they can make it even better. Curing malaria is the goal, not making us rich or famous. So my colleagues write a lot of code to let us look at and analyse malaria DNA sequence, and they to it in open source as a matter of routine.

    • Photo: Jemma Ransom

      Jemma Ransom answered on 17 Mar 2011:

      I’m not sure what that is… Something computery?

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