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Re: [MacPerl] Biology with MacPerl?



At 16:55 -0500 2/12/00, vojton01@endeavor.med.nyu.edu wrote:
>Hello everybody. This is my first posting on this forum. I'm learning
>about the MacPerl (have some Java experience) and would like to apply
>MacPerl mostly for biological research (tutorials, database
>access, sequence manipulations/searches).


At 17:13 -0600 2/12/00, David Steffen wrote:
>I make my living developing software for biological research, and I
>developed a major package for a biotech company in MacPerl (with a
>little bit of C; (Mac)Perl is just too slow for Smith Waterman
>alignments).

At 15:12 -0800 2/12/00, Todd Richmond wrote:
>A surprising amount of the bioperl stuff does work on Macs, but it's
>pretty spotty. Anything that relies on external programs (like
>ReadSeq), of course, breaks and I would imagine a bunch of the

Anyone interested in being a guest columnist for the MacPerl columnb in
PerlMonth?

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