Mark A. Jensen wrote: > I thought that I would run down a couple of nice resources > full of friendly patient folk for biologists new to Perl. You may also find IRC helpful: http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/IRC It's very quiet. Welcoming new lurkers of all skill levels. :) Cheers, Jay Hannah http://clab.ist.unomaha.edu/CLAB/index.php/User:Jhannah