This started off as a regular episode in which we were going to discus a few stories. But a talk given by Joel Dudley, resident Bioinformatics specialist in the Butte lab at Stanford, which Shirley Wu blogged about was just too good to miss. The issues raised in this blog post were so close to our heart that we spent all of 45 minutes talking about them .

Show notes

The shortest shownotes this far:

Joel Dudley on software engineering in Bioinformatics

Shirley wu : Tips and tricks for software engineering n Bioinformatics

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Google Summer of code needs BioInformatics mentors and volunteers  

Links of the week ( thanks wlad for pointing our the omission)

Deepak was digging the datasets at the infochimps and  Hari likes Matplotlib 

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