<![CDATA[BOL: Ruby and BioRuby]]> https://bioinformaticsonline.com/view/1928? https://bioinformaticsonline.com/view/1928 Sun, 11 Aug 2013 11:57:06 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/view/1928 <![CDATA[Ruby and BioRuby]]> Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. It was also influenced by Eiffel and Lisp. Ruby was first designed and developed in the mid-1990s by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto in Japan.

BioRuby is a package of Open Source Ruby code, with classes for DNA and protein sequence analysis, alignment, database parsing, tools for structural biology, and other Bioinformatics. BioRuby is one of a number of Bio* projects designed to reduce code duplication. In 2011 the BioRuby project introduced the biogem software plugin system. Biogems are listed on biogems.info, with 2-3 new plugins being added every month.

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ and http://www.bioruby.org/

]]> Archana Malhotra