BioPerl is again part of the Google Summer of Code! The Open Bioinformatics Foundation, which also includes BioPython, BioRuby, and others, has been accepted into the Google Summer of Code for 2011. We are actively looking for students interested in OBF-related bioinformatics projects; new ideas are welcome. Project ideas and other details can be found here:
For the full details, see here!.
(and yes, I'm too lazy and tired to type that again...)
Perl Iron Man has been getting hammered by spam the last couple of days. Any sign of of a let-up?
In addition to The Perl Foundation being accepted into GSoC 2010, BioPerl is now also part of the Google Summer of Code! The Open Bioinformatics Foundation, which also includes BioPython, BioRuby, and others, has been accepted into the Google Summer of Code for 2010. We are actively looking for students interested in OBF-related bioinformatics projects; new ideas are welcome. Project ideas and other details can be found here:
(Note: this is a repost due to some of the beta-ness of the site).
BioPerl is a commonly-used toolkit for bioinformatics, but it does have it's share of problems. As educated_foo has pointed out, it can be slow, documentation is spotty for some modules, classes can be overly complex in some cases, and there are interface issues. And, for simple formats like FASTA it's probably overkill if you are just parsing data. Not …
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