[Bioperl-l] Citing CPAN modules in scientific publications

[Christopher Bottoms]

Dear BioPerlers,

I am working on a publication which would be impossible without the use of
several CPAN modules. I appreciate the work authors and maintainers have put
into these modules and would like to acknowledge them by citing their work.

I was thinking of a format such as
Author(s), Maintainer(s) *Module::Name* [
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Name]


A reference for File::Slurp would appear thus:

Uri Guttman, Dave Rolsky *File::Slurp* [
http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-Slurp]


I guess that I could instead mention authors in an acknowledgment section. I
noticed a large acknowledgment section in the BioPerl paper (
http://genome.cshlp.org/content/12/10/1611.full).

Thanks for your time,
Christopher Bottoms (molecules)