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

[kevbonham]

@Tamas_Papp

I don’t know about computational genomics, but typically, in academia, the main reward for writing a widely used and highly regarded set of teaching notes/tutorials is invitations to teach courses using it.

Well, textbook authors also get some cut of copies sold, don’t they? I’m all in favor of open-sourcing textbooks too, and I think it makes extra sense if it’s a code-based book, but I don’t think it’s necessarily the norm.