Vibe Coding with GitHub Copilot (Getting Started with GitHub Copilot)

Good news - the Ion Torrent Suite is now freely available open source software on GitHub under the GPL v2 licence, as promised late last year. There is now something more substantial behind talk of Ion Torrent " democratising sequencing ", and a clear advantage over the closed source tools of rival companies. I commend them!

Inspired by a comment on my post Visualising edit history of a Wikipedia page, the code I use to make history flow diagrams like the one below is now in GitHub at https://github.com/rdmpage/wikihistoryflow.There is also a live version at http://iphylo.org/~rpage/wikihistoryflow.

I saw this Tweet a few days ago from Jeremy Leipzig counting the number of GitHub repositories that sequencing-related companies have on their organization page, but was immediately curious how many of these had an open-source license versus a restrictive or unknown license. I tried to one-shot this with GPT-5 given a screenshot of Jeremy's Tweet and a few instructions. It got me 90% of the way but I had to make a few tweaks here and there.

Donald Hobern drew my attention to nice the way iNaturalist displays taxonomic splits: In this example, observations identified as Rhipidura fuliginosa are being split into Rhipidura fuliginosa and Rhipidura albiscapa . This immediately reminds me of the idea which keeps circulating around, namely using version control tools to manage taxonomic classification.