[Bioperl-l] BOF

[Paul Gordon]

> I guess (I even know) that there are other visual programming tools
> implementing such a concept, too. But I'm not aware of such a tool in
> Bioinformatics, or sequence analysis, to be more precisely, which may due
> to the fact that I haven't really looked for one. I seem to recall that I
> once saw a generic tool that could do the job here, but I don't know
> where. Has anyone seen such a beast, or does anyone else think it would
> be useful?

I believe they're trying to do something along those lines with Piper
http://www.bioinformatics.org/piper/, a GUI to connect bioinformatics
programs together in a data flow, with some visualization objects thrown
in?