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Please do not use comments to answer these questions. This proposal is not part of a Q&A site, and the task at hand is to help define what is on and off topic for a site. Comments are here to help improve the questions; not to answer them. See What is the rationale for deleting answers? Thank you. – Robert Cartaino Apr 18 '17 at 3:30

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added by prab4th Apr 15 '17 at 18:02

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added by Koo Zhengqun Apr 17 '17 at 15:20

closed as duplicate of What are the classical textbooks I should read as a newcomer to Bioinformatics? [closed] by Robert Cartaino Apr 18 '17 at 16:02

This question covers exactly the same ground as another question in this proposal.

I like this because the question is open-ended, but provides specificity in the questioner's background. The answers to "I am an X; what should I (read / do) to become more proficient in Bioinformatics?" will be different (and informative about the nature of Bioinformatics) depending on what X is. – gringer Apr 18 '17 at 12:43

This proposal is about to undergo a final review, so for the purpose of defining the scope of this proposal, pruning out closely-related questions helps assure we have a sufficient breadth of subject matter to actually create this site. – Robert Cartaino Apr 18 '17 at 16:02

The other question has been closed, so this no longer duplicates scope. – gringer Apr 18 '17 at 20:48

I understand they are not duplicate at all [1], although the phrasing could be changed to make the distinction clear. (As a not very experienced SE user, should I be concerned that this pruning might be responsible for previous attempts at a bioinfo SE failing? e.g. ppl may not feel appreciated, votes might be lost, scope might be decided too narrowly?) [1] a CS person would be directed to books heavy on the biology (or even not bioinfo at all, just "pure" biology). Classical bioinfo books, on the other hand, generally assume knowledge of Biology, and go to explain algorithms. – Leonardo de Oliveira Martins Apr 18 '17 at 21:37

Maybe someone could better rephrase this question. Going by the same reasoning, we would have many duplicate questions for different professions: biologists, graduate, software engineer, chemist, etc... Perhaps something like "I generally understand algorithms, what should I read to understand the specialized algorithms used in Bioinformatics?" – Koo Zhengqun Apr 18 '17 at 23:36

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added by Mitra Apr 18 '17 at 11:57

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added by bli Apr 18 '17 at 8:54

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added by medbe Apr 17 '17 at 19:41

closed as not a real question by Robert Cartaino Apr 18 '17 at 16:09

It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form.

Please be more specific about what problem you are trying to solve. The purpose of these questions is to help define the scope of this site, but I could drop this question into just about any community and it would seem to fit that site. Sometimes a questions can be so generic, it doesn't help define the scope of the site at all. – Robert Cartaino Apr 18 '17 at 16:09

up vote 1 down vote

added by morgantaschuk Apr 18 '17 at 21:32

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added by bli Apr 18 '17 at 8:55

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added by wythagoras Apr 18 '17 at 16:48

Please be more specific about what type of feature set or problem you are trying to solve. Asking which language is useful in a broad context like this will likely become a "list your favorite programming languages" thread. – Robert Cartaino Apr 18 '17 at 17:05

@Robert Cartaino, I changed "bioinformatics" to "computational evolutionary biology". Most bioinformatics modules/languages (e.g. Biopython) are more focused on DNA sequencing. I think this changed question would have only a few possible answers. – wythagoras Apr 18 '17 at 18:24

Thank you for the update. Let's see what the community thinks of it. – Robert Cartaino Apr 18 '17 at 18:43

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added by wythagoras Apr 18 '17 at 16:49

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added by sh4wn Apr 19 '17 at 14:43

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added by Leonardo de Oliveira Martins Apr 19 '17 at 21:43

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added by Leonardo de Oliveira Martins Apr 19 '17 at 21:55

up vote -1 down vote

added by prab4th Apr 17 '17 at 9:27

Since we are now defining what and how should be good questions for the proposed site, it would be very helpful to accompany downvotes with a clear explanation for it. Ideally you should describe ways of improving the question. – Leonardo de Oliveira Martins Apr 18 '17 at 11:33

up vote -2 down vote

added by Leonardo de Oliveira Martins Apr 15 '17 at 21:20

Since we are now defining what would be good questions for the proposed site, it would be very helpful to accompany downvotes with a clear explanation for it. Ideally we should describe ways of improving the question. – Leonardo de Oliveira Martins Apr 18 '17 at 11:34

Yeah, I don’t understand the downvotes at all. I think it’s a completely fine question. Unfortunately I have no more upvotes to give. – Konrad Rudolph Apr 18 '17 at 16:52