is there an ticket/quickfix to remove a pointless ...

# intellij

[holgerbrandl]

is there an ticket/quickfix to remove a pointless let such as in

openFasta("hervs99k.fasta")
    .filter { it.sequence.length.let { it in 1000..3000 } }
    // suggest to replace unnecessary let with just
    .filter { it.sequence.length in 1000..3000 }

?

[holgerbrandl]

see https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-21373

[andyb]

@holgerbrandl Seeing that you are importing a Fasta file, are you using Kotlin for bioinformatics?

[holgerbrandl]

@andyb where possible yes, using a few kotlin bits collected in https://github.com/holgerbrandl/kutils
But IMHO those bioinformatics bits should be refactored out into a separate artifact. We could try it together in case you're interested.

[andyb]

I got into bioinformatics as a 'hobby' via Project Rosalind (http://rosalind.info/about/) and a few Coursera courses. Really enjoyed it as an application of IT and some really interesting algorithms.

[andyb]

Most of my bioinformatics has been in Python, but would be interested seeing in how that transfers to Kotlin

[holgerbrandl]

I should blog about it more often. In fact many things could be pulled in from biojava.

[andyb]

I should have a look at biojava. Spent a lot of time implementing sequence alignment & phylogeny algorithms in Python but the biojava pages look v impressive