# Off-topic: c language and bioinformatics

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/off-topic-c-language-and-bioinformatics/83269>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 24, 2007, 7:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/off-topic-c-language-and-bioinformatics/83269 "2007-01-24T19:49:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![alex-osu3](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/13edae/32.png) [@alex-osu3](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alex-osu3)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 7:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/off-topic-c-language-and-bioinformatics/83269/1 "2007-01-24T19:49:46Z")

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Hi all,

It is an off-topic in Ruby. But I just wonder if anyone out there knows  
a website or books talking c langauge in bioinformatics or with some  
simple codes to read files and processing DNA sequences?

Thanks,

Li

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**Author:** ![alex-osu3](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/13edae/32.png) [@alex-osu3](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alex-osu3)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 9:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/off-topic-c-language-and-bioinformatics/83269/2 "2007-01-25T09:27:57Z")

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> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, FBG, AB, PTA, PGS, MS, MNLP,  
> NST, ACMC(P)  
> [http://borasky-research.blogspot.com/](http://borasky-research.blogspot.com/)

Ed,

Thank you very much.

Li

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**Author:** ![alex-osu3](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/13edae/32.png) [@alex-osu3](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alex-osu3)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 4:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/off-topic-c-language-and-bioinformatics/83269/3 "2007-01-25T04:11:30Z")

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Li Chen wrote:

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I don’t know about C, but there’s lots of bioinformatics done in R,  
Ruby, Perl and Python. I can’t speak about the Perl or Python code, but  
you can find the R bioinformatics people over at  
[http://www.bioconductor.org](http://www.bioconductor.org). BioRuby lives at [http://www.bioruby.org](http://www.bioruby.org).

–  
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, FBG, AB, PTA, PGS, MS, MNLP, NST, ACMC(P)  
[http://borasky-research.blogspot.com/](http://borasky-research.blogspot.com/)

If God had meant for carrots to be eaten cooked, He would have given  
rabbits fire.