[Biojava-l] sample code information is needed

Ewan Birney birney@ebi.ac.uk
Wed, 3 Jan 2001 16:28:28 +0000 (GMT)


On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Thomas Down wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 11:11:29PM -0800, Bruce Ling wrote:
> > 
> > One general comment: bioperl seems to have more functionality than biojava.
> > Has biojava thought about converting most of the bioperl functionality into
> > java?
> 
> That's true (although, to be fair, there is also functionality
> in BioJava which bioperl doesn't do yet).  We ought to be able
> to port the code for some of this missing functionality pretty
> easily -- seems like a logical task to have running in the
> background at the bootcamp (planned for a couple of months'
> time).

Also the BioCorba framework can provide/or can be extended to cover more
functionality from bioperl into biojava...

> 
> Of course, if anyone wants to start converting their favourite
> perl modules before then, that's fine too...
> 
>     Thomas.
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