[Bioperl-l] question about the nature of bioperl

[nkuipers]

Thanks for your reply.  I am relatively new to open source development and had 
not considered that bit about "no one praises you".  I started looking into 
bioperl a little while ago, and asked my supervisor why we don't use it.  His 
answer was that using anything from bioperl seems to require lots of other 
things used just so; in other words, it's too intertwined with itself.  And 
indeed, between CPAN modules for parsing etc. and our own code, we do well 
enough, seemingly more simply.  Your points were all well made however, I 
appreciate the insight.  I personally am interested in further exploring 
bioperl.

Best regards,

Nathanael Kuipers