Thinking About Bioinformatics

I’ve been hacking a bit with Silverlight, Microsoft’s environment for running dynamic languages like Python and Ruby directly within a web browser like Firefox or IE. It seems to work quite well, and it’s easy to get Python code up and running in Silverlight. Indeed, it’s been surprisingly easy to get quite significant chunks of Python running in Silverlight — specifically, pygr, including large portions of code originally written for Pyrex (a mixed C / Python language environment). First I’ll describe my impressions of Silverlight and its implications for Python, then what I’ve accomplished with it.

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