<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px;">Dear BopPerl developers & users,</div><div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px;">We are planning to formally release and write a manuscript on BbWrapper (<a href="https://github.com/bioperl/p5-bpwrapper">https://github.com/bioperl/p5-bpwrapper</a>), currently including four command-line utilities (bioseq, bioaln, biotree, biopop) for manipulation of sequences, alignments, and phylogenetic trees.</div><div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px;">We would like to ask for your input on the following two issues:</div><ul><li>How should we properly acknowledge the original developers (since most of the options are wrappers of BioPerl methods, not original codes by ourselves)? Is there an “official” statement of acknowledgement?</li><li><span style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px;">I would like to invite you for beta-testing, commenting on, and contributing to BbWrapper. This is necessary, because, while we are honored to be hosted by bioperl.org, I have no idea how many (if any, besides ourselves) have tried or used these wrapper scripts.</span></li></ul><div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px;">We believe the “Wrapper”-approach is more robust than many stand-alone sequence utilities out there because of this community of developers and users. Also, we believe these wrapper scripts could further popularize BioPerl among biologists by relieving them from writing object-oriented module callers.</div><div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px;">Thanks,</div><div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px;"><br></div><div><div><font face="Consolas,monospace">weigang</font></div><div><font face="Consolas,monospace">----------------</font></div><div><font face="Consolas,monospace">Weigang Qiu, Ph.D. Associate Professor</font></div><div><font face="Consolas,monospace">Department of Biological Sciences</font></div><div><font face="Consolas,monospace">Hunter College of the City University of New York</font></div><div><font face="Consolas,monospace">Belfer Research Building</font></div><div><font face="Consolas,monospace">413 East 69th Street, Room 402</font></div><div><font face="Consolas,monospace">New York, NY 10021</font></div><div><font face="Consolas,monospace">Google Map: https://www.google.com/maps/place/413+E+69th+St,+New+York,+NY+10021/@40.7655886,-73.9561743,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x89c258c3d235f76f:0x4f3d0d5d8a78fe6?hl=en</font></div><div><font face="Consolas,monospace">Office Tel: 1-212-896-0445</font></div><div><font face="Consolas,monospace">Lab Tel: 1-212-896-0446</font></div><div><font face="Consolas,monospace">Fax: 212-772-5227</font></div><div><font face="Consolas,monospace">Email: weigang@genectr.hunter.cuny.edu</font></div><div><font face="Consolas,monospace">Web:http://diverge.hunter.cuny.edu/labwiki/</font></div><div style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px;"><br></div></div><blockquote id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE" style="font-family: Consolas, monospace; font-size: 12px; border-left-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-left-width: 5px; border-left-style: solid; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 5px;"><div></div></blockquote></body></html>