Who am I ?

I'm a computational biologist who works on analyzing high throughput sequencing data for basic research projects. I owe so much to open source and freely accessible softwares that I feel forced to always make an extra effort to try making my bioinformatics analyzes (and more!) accessible to the broader community.

What I want to achieve :

Every bioinformatician (and more!) need to know some bash programming to have control over its computer, server and data. However, there are to date no real solution, philosophy or comprehensive guidelines to help us getting the most out of it in a reasonable amount of time. I believe that this is what makes the learning process so slow and often deters people from even trying when learning Python is seen as a way easier alternative.

The main constraint of Bash when working on remote servers in a terminal is that there's no possibility to have a proper IDE to help writing and testing bashscripts. To tackle this situation, I ambition to implement a series a bashscripts that can help us working with bash in a more efficient manner, all within a terminal.
For instance, I'm now constantly using my util bashscript_canva to create new scripts with a skeleton to parse arguments in one command line and it totally changed my "Bash" experience !

In a sense, I'm getting inspired by the big improvements that happened in the R project, with new functionalities built on R itself. Indeed, like most of R users, I experienced an enormous change when visualizing data using ggplot2 (more handy) compared with base R (more challenging).

By sponsoring me, you would support the implementation of an extra layer of scripts to get yourself, your students, employees and kids more efficient Bash users ready to face the biggest scientific challenges.