[Biojava-l] what is the design goal of biojava?

[Matthew Pocock]

Magic Fang wrote:

> hi,
> i am now using biojava, and i think it is quite good, especially the 
> modeling and statistics class, but on data manipulation, it seems 
> somewhat complex. if she is like bioperl in seqio or searchio, she 
> will be more beautiful i think. so i want the design goal of biojava, 
> for biologist or programmer?

I agree with you about the complexity. If you can think of a cleaner and 
simpler API and have the time or can motivate others then feel free to 
tackle this. I think this happened because the early developers where 
all using BioJava as a library for developing compute-intensive 
applications, rather than as a scripting environment for running 
external anaysis programs. Obviously, now it would be good to address this.

Matthew