Virtual DragonPy Meetup July 2021

Hello, fellow Pythonistas!

It looks like our meetup will not be taking a summer break, so we are here to make your holidays more Pythonic!

The link to the Zoom meeting will be sent to all attendees about an hour before the meetup - RSVP at least an hour before the event in order to get the link.

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Talks:

⭐︎ Roman Luštrik: Python -> R -> epigenetics -> magic ⭐︎

Tools used in bioinformatics are written in many different languages. One of the more popular ones is R. This in itself is fine, but if your primary workflow is done in Python, you do not want to be switching between different scripts or IDEs.

Towards this end, a rpy2 package has been developed to tailor your every need when working with R code. In my talk I will demonstrate how to call R functions or chunks of code from Python "natively" and show an example of analyzing epigenetic data where I'll attempt to predict age and ethnicity of some random people from a cancer patient database.

Lightning talks:

⭐︎ Dror Speiser: IPython AutoImport: importing the easy way ⭐︎

IPython is a package that intervens when you forget to import: https://github.com/anntzer/ipython-autoimport

⭐︎ Andraž Brodnik: Practical closures ⭐︎

Practical closures: run an external process in a readable way.