An introduction to scripting in Ruby for biologists

被引：11

作者：

Aerts, Jan ^{[1
]}

Law, Andy ^{[2
,3
]}

机构：

[1] Wellcome Trust Sanger Inst, Genome Dynam & Evolut Grp, Hinxton CB10 1SA, England

[2] Univ Edinburgh, Roslin Inst, Div Genet & Genom, Roslin EH25 9PS, Midlothian, Scotland

[3] Univ Edinburgh, Royal Dick Sch Vet Studies, Roslin EH25 9PS, Midlothian, Scotland

来源：

BMC BIOINFORMATICS | 2009年 / 10卷

基金：

英国生物技术与生命科学研究理事会;

关键词：

Information management;

D O I：

10.1186/1471-2105-10-221

中图分类号：

Q5 [生物化学];

学科分类号：

071010 ; 081704 ;

摘要：

Ruby programming language has a lot to offer to any scientist with electronic data to process. Not only is the initial learning curve very shallow, but its reflection and meta-programming capabilities allow for the rapid creation of relatively complex applications while still keeping the code short and readable. This paper provides a gentle introduction to this scripting language for researchers without formal informatics training such as many wet-lab scientists. We hope this will provide such researchers an idea of how powerful a tool Ruby can be for their data management tasks and encourage them to learn more about it.

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