[Bioperl-l] bioperl email list

[Dave Messina]

Hi John,

Welcome to BioPerl!



>  I subscribed to the bioperl list and got a return email, but have never
> received an email.


As I'm sure you know, most of the time when email doesn't show up, it's
because it's been filtered as spam. I assuming you looked for this already
though.

If that's not it, then I suggest trying to log in to the mailing list server
here:
http://bioperl.org/mailman/listinfo/bioperl-l

Log in by entering your email address (the one you subscribed with) in the
last field on that page and clicking the "Unsubscribe or edit options"
button.

On the next page that comes up, type your password in the first field on the
page.

If for some reason your haven't been subscribed to the list properly, then
you will get an error here. Otherwise, you will be taken to your membership
configuration page. There you can verify. among other options, that mail
delivery is enabled.


The truth is:  these object are blowing me away and I need help.


BioPerl does have a bit of a learning curve, but fortunately there are some
good tutorials that should help you to get started. If you haven't already,
visit the HOWTO section of bioperl.org. Check out the one on BioPerl for
beginners, and then you might follow up with the SeqIO and SearchIO HOWTOs
which cover how to read and write sequences and sequence alignment program
output.

Also, there's lots of great example code in the examples folder of the
BioPerl distribution. I find looking at how other people use BioPerl is very
helpful in understanding what objects are used for what.

Finally, I'll plug the BioPerl Deobfuscator, which is a class browser for
BioPerl and available at: http://bioperl.org/cgi-bin/deob_interface.cgi

BioPerl classes tend to have multlple levels of inheritance, and the
Deobfuscator lets you see all of the methods available to objects of a given
class.


Dave