Bioperl is a collection of Perl modules that facilitate the development of Perl scripts for bioinformatics applications. It is an open source software project which is still under active development. The first stable release was 1.0.0 in June 11 2002, the most recent stable release was in December 2003 with unstable developer releases produced periodically including October 112005.

In order to take advantage of BioPerl, the user needs a basic understanding of the Perl programming language including an understanding of how to use Perl references, modules, objects and methods.

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Bioperl provides software modules for many of the typical tasks of bioinformatics programming. These include:

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