On the Applicability of Software

Patterns for the Bioinformatics

Open Source Community

BOSC 2009 Panel

Aleksi Kallio, Jim Procter, Lonnie Welch, Bob Hanmer (Moderator)

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What is a Software Pattern?

A description of a reusable proven design element

with enough information to recreate the design, customized for the situation

An element of a pattern language

A collection of patterns that work together to solve larger problems

The building block for a software handbook

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Bioinformatics Open Source Patterns

How can you make use of patterns to foster development of “better” bioinformatics software?

What are the patterns that you have already mined?

What do you do with patterns?

Is there a repository?

Is there a “keeper” of the repository?