Wednesday 15th Jan. 2019: Joe Greener from UCL

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Julia: a natural language for computational biology

Abstract

Joe will speak about "Julia: a natural language for computational biology". He will discuss some of the BioJulia organisation, show packages such as BioStructures.jl, Bio3DView.jl and Molly.jl, and talk about how he has used Julia and its ecosystem in his research. Recent developments in the Julia ecosystem that will impact computational biology will also be discussed, along with a balanced assessment of how suitable Julia currently is for writing scientific software.

About the speaker(s)

Joe Greener is a research associate (postdoc) in the Bioinformatics Group at UCL. Previously he was a PhD student at Imperial College London. His interests include protein structures, molecular simulation, software development and open science. Currently his research involves developing computational methods to predict and design protein structures, with a focus on using deep learning for de novo protein structure prediction.

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