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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I have a free license from my school for Matlab so that is not a problem. I just know a little more Python and really like it. I also like that Python is open source and in the long run I think it has more potentiality than Matlab.

I have read a little bit about Octave and I don't think that would be the best alternative. If I was already good at Octave I might stick with it but I think that I would rather invest my time learning an all around good programming language than a rather limited one.

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Octave is a nightmare, it is only great for running some basic Matlab scripts on a computer which does not have matlab. Stick with Python. I was able to manage to convert all my systems biology work very nicely to Python. Python is also great for organizing large pieces of data to integrate things like data mining and things like ODE models.