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Has there been any interest in using Datasette for bioinformatics? I didn’t see any plugins for that space, but I could see a lot of potential for scientists to publish their datasets in an interactive form.

Better-equipped or tech savvy groups do this using custom websites today, and some people upload raw data to central “depositories.” A suitably-priced offering of Datasette Cloud could open this up to many more scientists.

Python already has a fantastic ecosystem of biology-related libraries (arguably R’s is better but Python is definitely a contender).

One potential risk is that “omics” datasets are often much bigger than is typical for SQLite.

parent pbiswal 3 years ago

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