[DIYbio] Re: BioCoder : a high-level programming language for expressing biology protocols

Hi Vaishnavi, 
We are students from IIT Roorkee and are currently exploring the domain of MicroFluidics. We came across BioCoder and downloaded it from the given link.
So we are facing issues in running the make files. We are working in Linux environment. Issues are:
* cl command not found. (okay, installed cl-launch and then there is no flag for -c as present in make file)
* No such file /FoBioCoder.obj (no of the object files are present.)
Then we tried using g++/gcc/cc with -c flag and changed *.obj to *.o
Then conio.h was not found (it was then replaced with curses.h header file)
using namespace std was also added.
But finally issue comes in some line where it says. 
```
BioCoder.cpp: In function 'void time_constraint(Container&, Time*, time_constraint_type)':
BioCoder.cpp:2818:35: error: invalid operands of types '<unresolved overloaded function type>' and 'int' to binary 'operator=='
   case CURRENT_FLUID: if (time == 0)
                                   ^
```
We think there is some issue with the maintenance of BioCoder. Can you please help us fix that?



On Tuesday, 8 December 2009 17:56:51 UTC+5:30, Vaishnavi. A wrote:
Hi all,
I am one of the developers of the BioCoder language. BioCoder is
essentially a C library with various functionalities included,
pertaining primarily to the field of Molecular Biology. We envision
the replacement of natural language description of protocols in
published papers with code written in BioCoder, thus making the
protocol standardized and amenable to automation and re-usability.We
are in the process of working out the release of BioCoder.

It is a widely accepted fact that most descriptions of protocols in
published papers are ambiguous and incomplete and we are unsure why
that is the case. We have come up with a survey to try and understand
the problem. It would be great if you could take this short 10-
question survey which tries to zero in on the problem. Results will be
made available on DIYbio when enough data points have been collected.

Please click on the link below to take the survey:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SYJM23Q

For more information about the language:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/thies/thies-iwbda09.pdf

To know what BioCoder code looks like, you can check out the following
examples from OpenWetWare:
http://www.google.co.in/search?q=BioCoder+site%3Aopenwetware.org&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&client=firefox-a&rlz=1R1WZPB_en-GB___IN356

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