# Biostar Handbook, computational genomics, and Julia - to be or not to be?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/biostar-handbook-computational-genomics-and-julia-to-be-or-not-to-be/25732>\
**Category:** Biology, Health, and Medicine\
**Created:** [June 26, 2019, 4:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/biostar-handbook-computational-genomics-and-julia-to-be-or-not-to-be/25732 "2019-06-26T16:44:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![kevbonham](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kevbonham/32/216165_2.png) [@kevbonham](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kevbonham)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 10:39am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/biostar-handbook-computational-genomics-and-julia-to-be-or-not-to-be/25732/21 "2019-08-21T10:39:20Z")

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> [@Ward9250](#):
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> Ok, I’ve made a blank repo here,

Where?

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**Author:** ![Ward9250](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ward9250/32/42768_2.png) [@Ward9250](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Ward9250)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 10:44am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/biostar-handbook-computational-genomics-and-julia-to-be-or-not-to-be/25732/22 "2019-08-21T10:44:27Z")

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Oh nice it cp/pasted blank, it’s here: [https://github.com/BioJulia/biojulia\_handbook](https://github.com/BioJulia/biojulia_handbook)

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**Author:** ![kevbonham](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kevbonham/32/216165_2.png) [@kevbonham](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kevbonham)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 1:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/biostar-handbook-computational-genomics-and-julia-to-be-or-not-to-be/25732/23 "2019-08-21T13:55:03Z")

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Great! Feel free to put me on as an official maintainer for that package. I also opened [an issue](https://github.com/BioJulia/biojulia_handbook/issues/1) for aggregating useful topics to cover. Other things to consider might be what form the handbook takes, I think there’s prior art in the DiffEq ecosystem for tutorials using Literate.jl or Weave.jl, maybe examples elsewhere too.

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**Author:** ![Ward9250](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ward9250/32/42768_2.png) [@Ward9250](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Ward9250)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 2:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/biostar-handbook-computational-genomics-and-julia-to-be-or-not-to-be/25732/24 "2019-08-21T14:03:56Z")

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What I’ve found is I like Literate, where my examples are largely scripts, with some explanatory annotation - I use Literate to make the Documenter .jl, and then generate a pure jl script that can be downloaded (see Pseudoseq examples). Which I think are more “show me” examples. Whilst Weave feels more ergonomic when there’s more explanatory text (perhaps more book like?), punctuated by the odd code chunk.

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