BioPerl FAQ

[Georg Fuellen]

Hi Eitan,

> Hi, everyone
> 
>   I'm just begining my first real perl project and it would have to do 
> with automating sequence analysis tasks. As a grad student I would like 
> to scavange as much as I can, and bioperl sounds like a great place to 
> start. 
>   I'm Perl4 literate, and would like to convert to Perl5, but in the
> meantime, do you have a step-by-step explenation to the stupid perler of
> how to incorporate modules into a perl program? Could such an example be
> written if none exists? 

Actually, http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/bcd/Perl/Bio/UnivAln/t/univaln.t_
is a simple example of a script that incorporates Bio::UnivAln.
SteveB and SteveC are currently working on a better bundling of
packages so that you will no longer need to edit the $INSTALL_PATH, etc.
As a general resource, there is
http://www.perl.com/perl/everything_to_know/easy_objects.html
Also, the new Camel (``Programming Perl'', 2nd Ed.) covers the topic.

>        Eitan.  
...
> My mail is being filtered. Putting the dollar sign in the subject will
> get your mail trashed.

Actually, you may be losing some important mail, because of these Perl $variables.

Oh well. Next in my inbox is probably a junk mailer who offers to get me removed
from other junk-mailer's address lists, for 500$ and a free phychic reading...

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best wishes,
georg