Bioinformatics specific sandbox

[radhouane]

Hello all,

I would be very grateful if you can review my platform CodersCrowd and give me some feedbacks to improve it

CodersCrowd is a sanbox for common bioinformatics problems, the idea is simple, it started when I wanted to pass a code to a collegue for code review, he was unable to run it because of some dependencies issues (it was a very complex code), so I thought may be if we had a platform that solves that problem that would be great for us ( and the whole community) to review code, run some tests, solve some issues, fix bugs etc ..

So I created CodersCrowd, where you can run any bioinformatics related code on the browser without the need to ship any dependency (bold statement for the *any* because it is always subject to improvement)

There is a knowledge base for solved problems, because I wanted people to generate an added value from their problems, each time a hack is useful for a given code, the author validate the hack and it is immediately tagged as a knowledge base entry (reference)

There is documentation for the platform here : http://coderscrowd.com

I would be very grateful if you guys can test it and send me some feedbacks.

Codes that are supported for now are : shell, R (with bioconductor) , python (with scipy, numpy, matplotlib, biopython), perl (with bioperl), and I am planning to add more runnable instances as the need is expressed

Thanks

Rad

[wolma]

hi,
does your support of python include python3 ?
best,
Wolfgang

[radhouane]

Hi Wolfgang,
Yes and no, technically I can add python 3 to the list of supported languages (by supported I mean making them run inside your browser), but till now I didnt receive requests for it, you can use this ticket systems and see how much vote you'll get

https://coderscrowd.uservoice.com/

Cheers
Rad