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On the future of Perl 5

On the future of Perl 5

Posted Dec 3, 2008 17:48 UTC (Wed) by jordip (guest, #47356)
In reply to: On the future of Perl 5 by stijn
Parent article: On the future of Perl 5

A friend of mine just entered in a bioinformatics lab and they ask her to learn Perl. I just took my first look to the language trying to help her and for simple data managing scripts it is quite neat.
I wondered why they make the students learn perl instead of other languages. It looks like there are a big library of scripts with all sorts of utilities noone want to rewrite ....
Maybe I am wrong...


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Biopython

Posted Dec 3, 2008 19:56 UTC (Wed) by southey (subscriber, #9466) [Link]

No need to say any more than biopython http://biopython.org for bioinformatics.

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