Re: perl's long term place in bioinformatics?

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in reply to perl's long term place in bioinformatics?

Perl seems well suited to bioinformatics judging by BioPerl, and given there's an O'Reilly book, Mastering Perl for Bioinformatics, dedicated to the subject. From a number of recent posts I've noticed on use.perl.org, the bioperl community remains active today:

• david_m use.perl journal
• david_m use.perl journal
• Alias use.perl article

Of course, many other languages and tools (e.g. Open Bioinformatics Foundation and BioPython) are also well-suited to this domain.