[BioPython] "Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills"

[Dinu Gherman]

Jeffrey Chang 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.


Which raises the question if this mountain of Perl code 
could be "wrapped" more nicely in a Python shell? That
might sound weird, but I think Digital Creations is try-
ing to get something going along these lines, too. Just
search for Perl on zope.org.

Dinu

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