Bots

Bots for #bioperl

This page is initially (05:15, 1 April 2009 (UTC)) meant as a whiteboard for IRC bot ideas. @ende has written a stimulating proof-of-concept, with some cool ideas emerging. One real example:

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* bioperl-bot (n=astewart@207.154.17.135) has joined #bioperl
<bioperl-bot> Hi there.
<ende> bioperl-bot
<ende> bioperl-bot translate atc
<bioperl-bot> I
<ende> :)
<majensen> YAY
<majensen> neato
<majensen> bioperl-bot order pizza
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<ende> bioperl-bot translate ACTAATAGATCTTAAGATCTTTATATAGATCTTCTTATTATTTTTACTATTAGGATCGCACTTTGCTGTG
<bioperl-bot> TNRS*DLYIDLLIIFTIRIALCC
<ende> yes
<ende> that is awesome
* majensen slowly realizing the possibilities
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Ideas

Admin

• Identify a decent repos (Google Code? Sourceforge?) to hold this stuff. -- majensen 05:15, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
• Here's a Bot::BasicBot I wrote a year ago or something. Dead easy to get started quickly. --Jhannah 23:08, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
• I heard a rumor that most bots on irc.perl.org are Flooterbucks nowadays. --Jhannah 23:10, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
• It would be nice if the bot had a pluggable behavior (could be done easily with Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable). This would encourage participation and would make addition of extra functionality easier.

Functionality/Use Cases

• Tell bot (privately, so as not to dump to the channel) to paste code to http://sial.org/pbot
  • I'm sure other solutions exist, but I whipped up a module based on LWP::UserAgent to do this (not sure where to put it; mebbe Sourceforge) -- majensen 05:15, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
  • Here's a dump of it: Code:DoSIAL.pm, Code:DoSIAL.t --majensen 01:44, 25 June 2009 (UTC)