Baypiggies Meeting November 19th,2009

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Thursday, November 19th, 2009

7:30 pm: General hubbub, inventory end-of-meeting announcements, any first-minute announcements.

7:35 - 8:40 pm: Technical Program

Topic: Newbie Nugget - The Essentials of PyMite

Speaker:  Lamont Lucas

Topic: Python in Computational Biology and Chemistry

Speaker: Andrew Dalke

LINKS:http://dalkescientific.com/writings/
Andrew will describe how Python is used in molecular modeling, bioinformatics, chemoinformatics and related fields. Wait! Don't leave! You're not a researcher in these fields and he knows it. He's going to give a taste of what the underlying problems are in some of those subfields, an idea of what Python tools are available, and describe a few of the reasons why sometimes Perl, FORTRAN, or another language is the dominate language for that some that domain. There will be some colorful pictures. He'll also include a bit of what it's like to be a software developer in a scientific field.

8:40 - 9 pm: Mapping/Random Access

Mapping is a rapid-fire audience announcement of topics the announcer is interested in.

Random Access follows immediately to allow follow up individually on topics of interest.