A gut feeling about Python

Episode #237, published Wed, Nov 6, 2019, recorded Fri, Sep 27, 2019

Let's start with a philosophical question: Are you human? Are you sure? We could begin to answer the question physically. Are you made up of cells that would typically be considered as belonging to the human body?

It turns out we have many ecosystems *within* us. Understanding them is important to our own wellbeing. In this episode, you'll meet Sebastian Proost, who is using Python to study bacteria in our world.

Links from the show

Group website: raeslab.org
TV Coverage on the gut-brain work: youtube.com
TedX talk from Jeroen we briefly discussed: youtube.com
Sebastian's work on Science Figured Out (in Dutch but the captions/subtitles are in English): sciencefiguredout.be

Sebastian on Twitter: @ProostSebastian
Sebastian's site: sebastian.proost.science
Sebastian on Github: github.com/sepro

Tools we mentioned:
Cytoscape.js: js.cytoscape.org
UltraJSON: pypi.org
Episode transcripts: talkpython.fm

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Sebastian Proost

After struggling to decide between studying biology and computer science, Sebastian ultimately started Biology which curbed into a Biotechnology degree. Never really able to let go of informatics he was able to get the best of both by pursuing a ...

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