[Bioperl-l] Looking good.

[Brian Osborne]

Ewan et al,

OK.

Brian O.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ewan Birney" <birney@ebi.ac.uk>
To: "Brian Osborne" <b_i_osborne@hotmail.com>
Cc: "Bioperl" <bioperl-l@bioperl.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] Looking good.


> On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Brian Osborne wrote:
>
> > Ewan et al,
> >
> > >>(3) Top level documentation: We need to overhaul bioperl.pod,
> > >>biostart.pod, bptutorial.pl, README to all work together. Peter I
assumme
> > >>will be doing bptutorial - Peter - do you still have time? Does anyone
> > >>want to work on the other modules?
> >
> > I made some minor changes to biostart.pod a while back, and in so doing
saw
> > that it was largely superceded by bptutorial.pl, though it has a nice
> > discussion of the Seq object. I'd be happy to work on biostart.pod but
first
> > give me a clearer sense of what you'd like to be done. Make it more like
a
> > true 'start' document? with various references to existing resources?
> > Currently it gives the impression of being unfinished....
>
> I am happy for us to blow away biostart.pod and concentrate people on
> bptutorial.pl
>
>
> What we have got to make sure is that newbies get directed to the right
> file. So - for example - we might do this:
>
>
>    - blow away biostart.pod
>    - rename bptutorial.pl to bioperl_tutorial.pl
>      (easier for newbies?)
>
>    - have the start of README go
>
>
>   * Getting Started *
>
> The easiest way to get started with bioperl is to read the tutorial in
> bioperl_tutorial.pl go
>
>    perldoc bioperl_tutorial.pl
>
>
>
> and generally sort it out
>
>
> I am assumming that we are going to delete something (!) in there... we
> have at least one too many file that it looks like you should read...
>
>
> Go for it Brian...
>
>
>
>
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