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encode | 4 years ago

Also see this comparison between Julia's BioSequences and Seq by Jakob Nissen and Ben Ward: https://biojulia.net/post/seq-lang/

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dgb23|4 years ago

An interesting takeaway:

> So it appears the primary reason BioJulia code is slower than Seq code in these three benchmarks is that BioSequences.jl is doing important work for you that Seq is not doing. As scientists, we hope you value tools that spend the time and effort to validate inputs given to it rather than fail silently.

Reminds me of the myriads of Excel catastrophes.

dunefox|4 years ago

This shows imo that BioJulia is better, precisely because it validates data and is a broader programming language invented for science, not a DSL that optimises for speed over all else. Besides the new version of BuiJulia seems to perform even better than seq.