Python is often used in big data situations.

One of the more personal sources of large data sets is our very own genetic code.

Of course, as Python grows stronger in data science, it's finding its way into biology and genetics.

In this episode, you'll meet Ian Marr.

He's working to help make cancer a thing of the past.

We'll dig into how Python is part of that journey.

This is Talk Python to Me,

episode 154 recorded February 9th, 2018. Welcome to Talk Python to Me, a weekly podcast on Python, the language, the libraries, the ecosystem, and the personalities.

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better by checking out what they're offering during their segment. Ian, welcome to talk Python.

Hi, Michael. Thanks for having me on. Yeah, I'm really glad to have you on to talk about

Python and biology and genomics. These are two areas where, you Yeah, I'm really glad to have you on to talk about Python and biology and

genomics. These are two areas where, you know, I've wanted to do a show on for a long time,

but just haven't managed to get the right, right stuff all lined up. So really excited to see

how Python is playing a role here. And I think it's just another cool example of how Python is being used in

all these really varied ways. Great. Yeah, it's really been taken off the last few years,

and it's gone really well with what we're trying to get done at our company. Awesome. So let's

dig into that. But first, to hear your story, how did you get into programming in Python?

Yeah, so I started programming when I was 13. My parents got me at Commodore 64. I started, you know, learning basic and trying to make my own games and things like that.

You know, went to school for programming, computer engineering.

Learned a lot of, you know, C and Pascal, even at the the time to date myself a little. And after graduating,

I worked at a defense contractor in the, you know, kind of their logistics department where we did

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