[BioPython] "Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills"

[Jeffrey Chang]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Dinu Gherman wrote:

> Makes me wonder if "learning computational approaches... for 
> the first time" is ideally left to the Perl league, or if it
> should be?

Of course not!  However, any book introducing biologists to the tools of
the bioinformatics trade needs to cover perl, since it's so widely used.

Out of curiosity, a search for "bioinformatics & perl" on the
U.S. monster.com job site yielded 31 hits.
"bioinformatics & python"  yielded   2
"bioinformatics & java"    yielded  33
"bioinformatics & lisp"    yielded   0

Jeff