Functional Programming in Python - Juan Nunez-Iglesiasis - LCA2016

Juan Nunez-Iglesiasis gave an informative talk on using toolz to write Python using functional programming methodologies.

• There was an excellent real world example using streaming.
• There were a couple of other examples user k-mer and a genome markov model.
• Python has a function call overhead of half a megabyte per second that is a hard limit for these applications.

Juan provided an excellent introduction into using the libraries that enable to write in Python in the manner of functional programming language.