raboukhalil

Yes it's powered by v86! I just wanted it to be easier to embed and come pre-built with lots of bioinformatics tools. You don't actually have to exclude the bioinformatics tools because v86 doesn't actually load tools unless you call them on the command-line. But when you embed, you can also preload the tools you will use so they load faster the first time they're called.

A few weeks ago, I came across a blog post with 5 git tips. I would have loved having an embedded terminal with some mock repos preloaded with the exact situation. That's the kind of use case I'm aiming at, not just the basic commands!

Wow tough crowd, can you expand on why it looks broken and low quality?

The use case is for tutorials and documentation pages. sandbox.bio embeds that terminal in all its bioinformatics tutorials and people find it useful to have an environment where you don't need to set anything up before you start learning. So I wanted to make it easy for others to embed a similar environment in their training materials.

Author here, nice to see the article posted here! I'm currently looking for ideas for other interactive articles, so let me know if think of other interesting/weird algorithms that are hard to wrap your head around.

Good point, thanks! I'll add a subsection about the intuition for that.

This is a podcast we recorded about the promise and perils of AI in biology, where we dive into a case where AI was used to predict enzyme function and gave results that looked really promising, but were not quite right.