Bioruby Resources

As a member of the Bioruby mailing list, my first post was where is the Bioruby documentation?

Why it is that Bioruby is not well documented? This question pops up so often in the mailing list that I am going to list a couple of resources here:

The best place to get started is at the Bioruby new website. For some reason the other website is still active.

An excellent tutorial written by Katayama Toshiaki among others is available here. Sample scripts on common tasks for sequence manipulations can be accessed from here.

Some Bioruby presentations can be downloaded from here as well.

The following blogs are dedicated in a way to Bioruby and bioinformatics
http://www.bioinformaticszen.com/

http://saaientist.blogspot.com/

http://bioinforuby.blogspot.com/

http://rubyonwindows.blogspot.com/

http://bioruby.g.hatena.ne.jp/nakao_mitsuteru/

If you have a specific question post it on the mailing list. And you may have an opportunity to have your question or problem solved by the experts!

Bioruby workshop

I would like to announce the first Bioruby workshop here in East Africa.

Please note the following important points:

1. The course will be held on Thursday 22nd May at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Nairobi-Kenya

2. Send your application form to bioinfoafrica@gmail.com. Applications not sent to this EMAIL ADDRESS WILL NOT be processed.

3. Deadline for application is May 1st 2008, successful applicants will be notified by 8th of May 2008.

4. Currently we are not able to offer travel fellowships for members outside Nairobi or Kenya. However, this is just the beginning of RSG East Africa getting organized to have training for its members and we hope in due course that such initiative will attract funding for travel.