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> At the Perl conference one thing
> that came out is that Bioinformatics is heavily dependent on
> Perl. What if someone (Per?) came up with nice, solid, fast
> thread[able] modules for Blast & co? The firms doing genetics
> research might be willing to find it.
I think Lincoln Stein muight be a good person to involve in that discussion.
By the way, I learned Perl at the Electronic Frontier Foundation but
solidified my knowledge of it working for the Human Genome Project. So I
can confirm that Perl is crucial in Bioinformatics.