I recently wrote about Picking a web framework for a project at work. We’re moving from an R Shiny app to something else. We weren’t sure what that something else should be so I rebuilt the app (in part) in three different web frameworks (each in a different programming language): FastAPI (Python) Rails (Ruby) Svelte (JavaScript) I decided to go with FastAPI for many reasons - go read the post linked above.

The call for applications for round 3 of the OBF Event Fellowship for 2025 is now open. The deadline for this round is 1 December 2025. You can submit your application through this Google Form. We have provided a Word template to help you draft the application locally before filling out the form – make a copy of this template.

BOSC 2026 , the 27th annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference, will take place July 13-14 or July 15-16 in Washington, DC, as part of ISMB 2026. We hope you will join us in person or online! Since 2000, BOSC has covered all aspects of open source bioinformatics and open science. BOSC 2025 took place July 21-22, 2025 in Liverpool, UK (as part of ISMB/ECCB 2025). Read our BOSC 2025 report on F1000Research!

Successively clicking the first link in a Wikipedia article almost always leads to Philosophy

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Reposted from the original at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/construct-objects-with-idiomatic-r-code --- Today I discovered the constructive package and the construct() function for creating R objects with idiomatic R code to make human-readable reproducible examples. CRAN: https://cran.r-project.org/package=constructive Source: https://github.com/cynkra/constructive/ Docs &

Use the constructive package instead of dput() to construct R objects with idiomatic R code for human-readable reproducible examples

Here’s a wee puzzle: A mature Open Data focused journal (“Journal A”), owned and launched by an company or Institute (“Institute B”), developed into the flagship of an Academic Publisher (“Publisher C”), runs their own properly archived and citable blog with DOIs etc (“Blog D”). If a briefly published editorial Blog Post (“Editorial E”) disappears from their Blog, could it be an accident, or something else?

To begin something is difficult; to keep something going is a different challenge. Even when it is the right thing to do, if it does not yield economic benefit in the short term, it may be difficult to sustain. Open science, including open-source software development and open data, is precisely such an example.

Today I learned you can create and customize ggplot2 visualizations using your voice alone.

Apple gets into protein folding, parsing R/Markdown and Quarto, vibe-coding an R package, AI in biosecurity and writing, nothing about AI is inevitable, conservation applications of de-extinction tech