Hi Todd,
Thank you so much for the kind words! I am excited to know that you will be using my paclet for your courses. Hope you find it useful!
One of the leading motivations to make this paclet was to use it to explain complex structural biology concepts to students. In particular the ProteinBackboneAtomPlot, AmidePlanePlot and DihedralAnglePlot was written with educational applications in mind. Let me know if you have any questions about using my paclet for your course.
Regarding your query -
"Recently I had a need to map RNA sequencing reads to the human genome, and unfortunately Mathematica is not up to the challenge. Too much data and too slow. One thing that would be super nice for scientists exploring the human genome is to have a performant implementation of the fm-index available in Mathematica. Perhaps you might bring this up in internal meetings."
I am new to the Language myself, so don't have answer to this question at the moment. Nonetheless I have contacted the relevant person in the company who might know more about this and waiting for a response.
I will get back to you once I hear anything. Hope that is okay.
Best,
Soutick