Bioinformatics in Rust is a monthly newsletter dedicated to showcasing how the Rust programming language is being applied in the field of bioinformatics. Its goal is to raise awareness of Rust as a powerful, safe alternative to more commonly used languages in the field, such as Python and R.
The first edition focused on sequence analysis, highlighting two crates designed for handling common sequence file formats (FASTA, FASTQ, etc.) and introducing an alternative to traditional k-mer-based comparison methods by using strobemers.
Each issue also features a monthly challenge tied to a theme from the newsletter. The first challenge invites readers to implement their own version of a random strobemer, a min-strobemer, or to design a custom strobemer algorithm.
In addition, every edition includes a link to a recent research article, spotlighting current developments in bioinformatics that readers may find interesting or worth exploring further.
this is cool. the research highlight seems a bit random and the summary is a bit cookie cutter/sounds a bit like ai, but i like the idea of its inclusion. if it can be related to rust that would be even cooler