What do people think of the programming language called Python?”
I have used python in pipelines of code seeking to take millions of results from genetic tests (i.e. looking for mutations) and apply different biological principles and assumptions to whittle that list down to a few hundred cases set aside for focused examination in a lab environment. I was a heavy perl user when I started python. Since my first programming language was C, I had a very hard time getting used to python because the style was so different. But people I met who used python as a first language loved it– they found it so much more intuitive and were able to whip out their first bits of python code faster than me. And the code is so much cleaner and readable. For bioinformatics, it’s hard to give up using all the perl libraries for the far less developed bioPython library set. But once you do, I’ve found it’s definitely much, much faster than even your best Perl program. I’ve been told that if you want to get into the pharma/biotech industry, know Perl; but if you are alrea
