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

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**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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**Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 6:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/biostar-handbook-computational-genomics-and-julia-to-be-or-not-to-be/25732/14 "2019-08-15T18:14:50Z")

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Welcome to the community! There’s a bunch of development effort happening in the [BioJulia organization](https://biojulia.net/), and someone just recently posted a package called [Bioinformatics.jl](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/bioinformatics-jl-helper-functions-for-bioinformatics-and-rosalind-info-problems/27506) that was used to go through [rosalind.info](http://rosalind.info) problems.

I don’t know how much of a programming background you have, but it sounds like you’ve been in the field a while. If you know python or R or matlab already, my advice would be to go learn [julia in y minutes](https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/julia/), then just start using it. I’m guessing most of your questions in the beginning will not be bioinformatics specific, but just general questions about the language. Search/ask here, check out the julia slack, or ping us at the [biojulia gitter](https://gitter.im/BioJulia/General). Good luck!

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