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I came across two diferent but matching term BioRuby and BioGem. What are the difference between these two term? If both are using same Ruby language for development then why did they develope two different biological packages.

Bioinformatics tools

http://mojolicious.org/ - Back in the early days of the web, many people learned Perl because of a wonderful Perl library called CGI. It was simple enough to get started without knowing much about the language and powerful enough to keep you going, learning by doing was...

vcftools.sourceforge.net - VCFtools contains a Perl API (Vcf.pm) and a number of Perl scripts that can be used to perform common tasks with VCF files such as file validation, file merging, intersecting, complements, etc. The Perl tools support all versions of the VCF...

With the emergence of NGS technologies, and sequencing data most of the bioinformaticians mung and wrangle around massive amounts of genomics text. There are several "standardized" file formats (FASTQ, SAM, VCF, etc.) and some tools for manipulating...

Problem at http://rosalind.info/problems/1c/ #Find all occurrences of a pattern in a string.#Given: Strings Pattern and Genome.#Return: All starting positions in Genome where Pattern appears as a substring. Use 0-based indexing.use strict;use...

code.google.com - You are requested to please bookmark collection of bioinformatics tools, scripts, codes that can be pieced together in a very easy and flexible manner to perform both simple and complex bioinformatics tasks. The next-generation sequencing included...

cpansearch.perl.org - This is a collection of libraries and high-quality end-user scripts for bioinformatic analysis, including working with gene annotation, collecting data scores from a variety of modern file formats, and conversion between file formats. The...

Today at work, I learned how to install Perl modules using CPAN. It’s a lot easier than I thought.