Hi,
I am a bioinformatician, and back when I was in Harvard I worked on the Scriptome, a web-based scripts system for file munging (http://sysbio.harvard.edu/csb/resources/computational/scriptome/). Now, seeing scratch I wonder: can I use it as a pipeline tool for bioinformatics? The idea of blocks that fit or don't is so briliant, as is the event-based programming. So I would like to create my own basic functions - probably easiest would be to call the blocks already written for the scriptome, i.e. little perl code blocks.
Having working in graphic pipeline anaysis enviroments, I know there is a lot to develop: a representation for files, for arrays and for vectors. But I can imagine all is solvable, and would make Scratch a killer programming language for biologists.
Is that even possible? What would it take?
Eitan
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