Re: [DIYbio] Genome Compiler

I have less of an issue with web-flash, and I'll definitely give it a whirl. I do hope you can get around to implementing it as cross-platform software at some point though.

Omri Drory <omri@genomecompiler.com> wrote:

>Hi Cathal, before we started coding our new version of Genome Compiler
>(prototype was .net/c# on win only) we looked at many tech options and
>had
>a big discussion about this. We're really tech agnostics - we only care
>
>about budding the best bioCAD tool possible and having satisfied users.
>
>
>Most likely we will need to move to another tech platform - but for
>now,
>most of our users (as based on info we get from people logging to our
>site)
>use macs/pc. We have limited personal and budget and can only do so
>much.
>
>Hope you will use our web version (yes - even though it will be flash)
>on
>linux soon.
>
>Best,
>
>Omri
>
>On Tuesday, June 5, 2012 3:41:18 AM UTC-7, Cathal wrote:
>>
>> ...But it's not cross platform. It's Mac/Windows only.
>> There are oodles of other systems that are fully cross platform and
>more
>> powerful/secure than Adobe anything. Consider Python3/TclTK a nice
>> standard of this class.
>>
>> Even properly written code in C is "cross-platform" because you can
>just
>> compile it to each architecture. Less convenient than Python, but
>still
>> miles better than Air.
>>
>> Air is pretty. It might be easy to work with, I don't know. But it's
>not
>> cross-platform at all. And, as an Adobe product, it should be
>considered
>> a malware backdoor.
>>
>> On 04/06/12 22:15, Omri Drory wrote:
>> > Hi Bryan, this Omri (CEO of Genome Compiler) - we use AIR only
>because
>> of
>> > the cross-platform support. We're not in love with this platform
>and
>> hope
>> > to move to HTML5 when it's mature enough.
>> >
>> > Please do try our software - there much we plan to build and
>support our
>> > community (just gave a talk at bioC + supporting iGem)
>> >
>> > Feel free to contact me at omri@genomecompiler.com if you have any
>> feedback
>> >
>> > Omri
>> >
>> > On Friday, June 1, 2012 7:35:00 PM UTC-7, Bryan Bishop wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 4:34 PM, ruphos <apokruphos@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>> >>> Hard to say. They don't give any info about their program (that I
>
>> could
>> >>> find, anyway) until you click the install button. Unfortunately,
>> they're
>> >>> using adobe air as a platform, which no longer supports
>linux-based
>> >> OSes.
>> >>
>> >> Sounds sorta useless. The only reason you might choose Adobe Air
>is
>> >> because you were sold over the hype about protecting your machine
>> >> code, but that's not really true because, hell, we're biohackers.
>The
>> >> other possible reason is some claim about cross-platform support,
>but
>> >> there are tons of more biologist-friendly options for that (pyjs
>keeps
>> >> claiming to be one, but there are others). Smells fishy to me.
>> >>
>> >> - Bryan
>> >> http://heybryan.org/
>> >> 1 512 203 0507
>> >>
>> >
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