BioPerl

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BioPerl is a collection of Perl modules that facilitate the development of Perl scripts for bioinformatics applications. It is an open source software project which is still under active development. The first stable release was 1.0.0 from June 11, 2002, the most recent stable release is 1.4.0 from December 2003. There are also unstable developer releases produced periodically, the most recent is 1.5.2 from December 6, 2006. Version 1.5.2 is considered to be the most stable (in terms of bugs) version of Bioperl and believed to be suitable for most peoples requirements.

In order to take advantage of BioPerl, the user needs a basic understanding of the Perl programming language including an understanding of how to use Perl references, modules, objects and methods.

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BioPerl provides software modules for many of the typical tasks of bioinformatics programming. These include:

Accessing sequence data from local and remote databases
Transforming formats of database/ file records
Manipulating individual sequences
Searching for similar sequences
Creating and manipulating sequence alignments
Searching for genes and other structures on genomic DNA
Developing machine readable sequence annotations

[edit] See also

Open Bioinformatics Foundation

[edit] External links

BioPerl.org
A Tutorial for using BioPerl [1]
HOWTO [2] documents for using BioPerl
An article titled "The Bioperl Toolkit: Perl Modules for the Life Sciences" [3] published in the scientific journal Genome Research