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Introduction to Perl and BioPerl

Institut Pasteur Tunis

22 March 2007

Heikki Lehväslaiho, SANBI

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Introduction to Perl and Bioperl

What is Perl

Perl is a programming language

Born from a combination of C & shell scripting for system administration

Larry Wall’s background in linguistics led to Perl borrowing ideas from

natural language.

“There is more than one way to do it”

The glue that holds the internet together.

Oldest scripting language

No separate compilation step needed

The line noise of the programming languages.

/^[^#]+\s*(?:\d+\w+\s*)[2,3]$/;

Introduction to Perl and Bioperl

Why use Perl

Easy to learn

Cross platform

Very strong community support

CPAN, perlmonks, Perl User Groups

Provides API to things that do not have API

Excellent documentation

see

man perl

Introduction to Perl and Bioperl

The Camel Book

Introduction to Perl and Bioperl

Beginning Perl

open source bool

by Simon Cozens

Downloadable at

http://www.perl.org/books/beginning-perl/

and locally

Introduction to Perl and Bioperl