SAGE – the ultimate Python development kit.
So I was checking out SAGE (http://www.sagemath.org/) and it seems very cool. This guy certainly had a lot to say about why switching from MATLAB to SAGE was extremely beneficial. I agree with him for the most part. I would love to see all the software we are building to be converted into Python. Currently everything has been written in MatLab. Also now that we are ready to start publishing our work onto the web and collaborate with other genomic imaging labs throughout the country, we are trying to find the best way to do that. Python is free. The new GUI is going to be in Python. Everything else is in MatLab. This is going to be a lot of work. I’ve seen a couple different Python Libraries that will run MatLab syntax, but I believe our programs are a little too complex to run that way. We’ll see what the boss decides to do.