Re: [boost] Bioinformatics algorithms in boost?

From: Johan Råde (rade_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-05 09:28:10

Robert Goldwein wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> for my thesis, I'll be developing a self-contained framework for
> algorithms used in bioinformatics. This will include algorithms such as
> Hamming distance, Levenshtein distance or Longest common subsequence
> algorithms, gene prediction algorithms, 2D and 3D scoring matrices,
> alignment problems, etc.
> 
> Would be there - in some near future - any interest in such library?
> 
> Thanks,
> R. Goldwein
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Dear Robert,

I'm working in bioinformatics,
so I would be very interested in your library.
A good and free bioinformatics library should be very useful.
It sounds like a great initiative.

However, I also think it may be a bit too domain-specific to belong to 
Boost.

--Johan