I have no previous experience in computer programming (Python, R, C++ or Java etc). Please suggest me a program which will be highly beneficial for research purposes (biology).
For biological research purposes, I will suggest you to use Matlab (however licensed version is required). It has its own programming structure with lot of assistance and reference codes.You can have python as your second choice.
If you need to handle Biological data sets then MATLAB is the most preferable for it. Python is also a very attractive one but in my point of view, MATLAB is the best.
It is very easy to handle matrices in MATLAB, but you need a license key for it. But I think you can bypass it!! :-)
Krishanu Dutta
Sebastian Proost Thank you Dr. Proost. Thank you for telling the different usefulness of Programming language in the biological research. It has helped me lot. I look forward to get started with Python and MATLAB.
Sandhanakrishnan Ravichandran Thank you for your suggestion. I will surely explore MATLAB as well as Python.
Python scripting will be better because it is easy to learn and use as compared to other languages u mentioned here
Each language has it's own design philosophy. The factors for comparison heavily depend upon the exact use-case. General performance, learning curve, community support in terms of tools and libraries, language expressiveness, Support for parallel programming can be few of such parameters. In my opinion, Python and Julia can be good considerations.
Hi my friend, my advice is to use Python language. It is also recommended to use R language for statistical purposes. But I generally recommend Python language. Because it has many libraries and is an easy language. There are also many forums about it and it has been accepted in academic forums.
Use python as your bread and butter, i highly recommend using pandas and jupyter notebook to get started. Many useful scientific tools are written in C++ / R but can be called using python. I used jupyter notebooks for a few years as my mainstay and still do for certain projects, but eventually shifted to using pycharm (IDE) which is a more stable way to develop algorithms. Happy coding.
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