CODES WITHOUT COMMAS
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Meet & Greet w/ Pizza starts at 6:30, main agenda 7:00.
Presentation: CODES WITHOUT COMMAS - with apologies to F.H.C. Crick
Presenter: Tom Lyons
Organizer Note: This Clojure presentation is beginner-friendly. Basic Clojure syntax and core library will be emphasized. Get a sense for one of Clojure's key strengths: direct data manipulation.
Intro: In 1957, Francis Crick (et al) published a paper on the "coding
problem" in protein synthesis titled "Codes Without Commas". The paper
proposes a solution to the problem through a simple counting argument.
That problem and argument can be represented in a few lines of code.
We'll discuss this application of Clojure to scientific investigation,
without assuming any background in Clojure, programming, or biology.
(All you need is some curiosity, but bring a laptop if you have one.)
The poster: https://github.com/tbl3rd/commas.github.io/blob/master/Commas.pdf
The paper: http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/43/5/416.full.pdf
The code: https://github.com/tbl3rd/clj-intro/blob/master/exercises/commas.clj
Presenter Bio:
Most days, Tom Lyons rides a bicycle to the Broad Institute of MIT
and Harvard in Cambridge, where he uses bicycles for the mind to help
the Data Sciences Platform prevent genetics data from piling up on the
far side of Broadway.
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