Use of Ruby in Laboratory Automation

Hello,

         I am guest editing a scientific journal (The Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation - http://labautomation.org/journal.php) of which is concerned with the use of various programming languages (covered so far Java, .NET, C++, Python, Perl) in the field of laboratory automation (typically in the biotech/pharma scientific academia industry). I am looking for examples of ruby being used in this field - does anyone know of any applications which have been constructed. Even better if you are available to write an article for the issue (language is English) discussing the language and also a specific application that would be fantastic, please contact me directly at my e-mail address listed in the e-mail header.

Cheers,

Neil

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Neil Benn
Senior Automation Engineer
Cenix BioScience
BioInnovations Zentrum
Tatzberg 46
D-01307
Dresden
Germany

Tel : +49 (0)351 4173 154
e-mail : benn@cenix-bioscience.com
Cenix Website : http://www.cenix-bioscience.com

Hi Neil,

Such a presentation was made at RubyConf.

See "Brent Roman: Embedding Ruby into a Robotic Marine Laboratory" in the Saturday section.

Audio and video of the presentation:
http://rubyconf.blowmage.com/
http://69.10.142.222:7000/

Checkout SciRuby, too:
http://sciruby.codeforpeople.com/sr.cgi/

Devin

Neil Benn wrote:

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Hello,

        I am guest editing a scientific journal (The Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation - http://labautomation.org/journal.php\) of which is concerned with the use of various programming languages (covered so far Java, .NET, C++, Python, Perl) in the field of laboratory automation (typically in the biotech/pharma scientific academia industry). I am looking for examples of ruby being used in this field - does anyone know of any applications which have been constructed. Even better if you are available to write an article for the issue (language is English) discussing the language and also a specific application that would be fantastic, please contact me directly at my e-mail address listed in the e-mail header.

Cheers,

Neil