{"id":1257,"date":"2014-02-21T15:04:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T06:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monomorphic.org\/wordpress\/?p=1257"},"modified":"2014-02-21T15:04:51","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T06:04:51","slug":"small-tools-for-bioinformatics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monomorphic.org\/wordpress\/small-tools-for-bioinformatics\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Tools for Bioinformatics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pjotr Prins has published a <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/pjotrp\/bioinformatics\">Small Tools Manifesto for Bioinformatics<\/a>, which is well worth a read for anyone who develops bioinformatics software.<\/p>\n<p>In essence it&#8217;s about increased adoption of the Unix design philosophy. I fully support the manifesto, which in many ways is reminiscent of the ideas that me and Gabriel Keeble-Gagnere presented in our <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1208.4436\">Friedrich paper <\/a>at PRIB2012. The idea of designing software as small parts that can be recombined freely, instead of as a huge black box with a glossy surface, is an extremely powerful one, particularly in the research space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pjotr Prins has published a Small Tools Manifesto for Bioinformatics, which is well worth a read for anyone who develops bioinformatics software. In essence it&#8217;s about increased adoption of the Unix design philosophy. I fully support the manifesto, which in many ways is reminiscent of the ideas that me and Gabriel Keeble-Gagnere presented in our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[109,20,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioinformatics","category-computing","category-dev"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/py2qT-kh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monomorphic.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monomorphic.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monomorphic.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monomorphic.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monomorphic.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monomorphic.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"https:\/\/www.monomorphic.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions\/1258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monomorphic.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monomorphic.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monomorphic.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}