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Request for comments on interchangeable bioinformatics containers
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too much emphasis on genomics #170

Closed prvst closed 9 years ago

prvst commented 9 years ago

I noticed that there is a large presence of genomics content being used and cited. I think that if you want that this project be accepted by the general community, we must be careful by not making 'bioinformatics' a synonym of 'genomics'. I have being working with proteomics for some years and believe me, the problems are the same as the genomics area.

I think that in the beginning is good to select an "area" or "problem" that is a hot topic to be addressed, like genome assemblers, for example, but it is also important to not pass the idea of being something for the genomics community only.

michaelbarton commented 9 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion, would you be able to provide a PR for this?

michaelbarton commented 9 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion. I have updated the commentary article to mention proteomics.