Biologists these days can generate vast quantities of data with relative ease. Bioinformaticians write the programs that facilitate the production and use of this data. It is possible get by using the ...

Every programming language has its strengths...and its weaknesses. We identify five tasks for which perl is ideally suited, and four that...well, really, shouldn't you choose something else? We all ...

Under a banner proclaiming the “Programming Republic of Perl,” Larry Wall delivered his State of the Onion address. The crowd ate it up. Wall is the principal author of Perl, a computer language so ...