Perl Scripts for Bioinformatics

Why Bioinformatics people prefer Perl scripts ?

1. Perl Scripts are very easy for the String processing. Biological data like Genome sequences and protein sequences.

2. There is no strict rules for writing Perl scripts like other languages. That makes the biologist to write scripts easily.

3. File processing is very easy in Perl.

4. Perl scripts can be combined with SHELL scripts for processing.

5. Using Perl CGI we can develop the Web pages by combining with HTML.

6. CPAN contains so many Perl Modules which are Specific for Bioinformatics.

7. Perl is used for System administration purpose also.

8. Perl Template tool kit is another Perl product which makes the web page development as very easy one for developers.

9. Perl DBIx is an ultimate module for DBI applicaiton. It makes the DBI as an easy job.

10. Processing / Parsing a HTML file is very easy by using CPA modules.

11. File type conversion is also possible in Perl. Ex:Doc to PDF ,HTML to PDF ..Etc.