[Biojava-l] java or perl?

[Matthew Pocock]

Hi Dave,

java/perl is a horses-for-courses argument (with a bit of religeos 
warfare thrown in for good measure). The package biojava-acedb countains 
an implementation of the acedb socket client. It also has an in-memory 
representation of acedb objects within Java. lastly, there is a package 
(that I am currently debugging) that makes these objects look like 
BioJava sequences, features and annotaions. Lincon Stein has a package 
called Jade that is a java client to the old RMI ace server. You have 
probably already seen Lincon's aceperl modules.

Good luck.

Matthew


Reynoldsvt@aol.com wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I am just getting in the bioinformatics field, and I am wondering if easier
> to design programs to perform bioinformatics task in java or perl.  I have
> visited both biojava, and bioperl, and am not sure where to begin.
> 
> Specifically I am interesting in writing a program which queries the 
> ACEDB as
> I am compliling information for my own speicialized C. Elegans database.  I
> was wondering which biojava package contained the java classes that would
> allow me to do this.  I couldn't seem to locate the...your help would be
> greatly appreciated...
> 
> thanks
> 
> Dave