[Bioperl-l] question about the nature of bioperl

[Chris Mungall]

On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Elia Stupka wrote:

> > maybe bioperl is biased towards the use-cases of the core developers, who
> > often work in big genome centres?
>
> bioper and ensembl have started with maybe some bias in that area, and
> this is one of the reasons why we have started working on the bioperl
> pipeline, it is to encapsulate in a robust reproducible core
> simple-to-complex tasks that people out there in small to medium labs
> would like to manage. Running things as part of the pipeline of course
> gives you an easy way to a)re-run every time you want with updated data,
> b)record sensibly each stage of your analysis for a potential
> paper,etc. c)introduces sanity all round.
>
> As part of this effort to make it easier for newbies we are producing XML
> "templates" for commonly wanted tasks, eventually we will have one out for
> annotation (genome-style) on any input sequence, as well as simple blast
> pipelines that can be easily modified, protein clustering,etc.

this sounds awesome, look forward to seeing this!

> Elia
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