Why PERL makes life easy for Bioinformaticians ?

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1. Perl Scripts are very easy for the String processing when using biological data like Genome sequences or protein sequences.

2. File handling is easy in Perl.

3. Perl regular expression is very flexible and easy to match similar patters rather than identical ones. It can be used in instance like matching a motif or a repeat in a sequence.

4. There are no strict rules for writing Perl scripts like other languages. That makes it easy for the biologist to learn Perl in short period.

5. Perl scripts can be combined with SHELL scripts for text processing.

6. Using Perl CGI and HTML one can develop the Web pages. Perl CGI is very similar to Perl scripts.

7. CPAN contains hundreds of Perl Modules which are Specific for sequence analysis.
Eg: FASTAParse , Peptide::Pubmed .

8. Perl can be used for System administration purpose also.

9. Perl Template tool kit is another Perl product which can be used for developing advanced web pages.

10. Using perl DBIx it is easier to pass mysql data (backend) to the web page(front end).

11. Processing / Parsing a HTML file is very easy by using CPAN modules.

12. File type conversion is possible in Perl using CPAN modules. Ex:Doc to PDF ,HTML to PDF ..Etc.

13. By using Perl Magick module we can do image processing.

14. Perl critic module will help you to write a best Perl codes by criticizing your code structure.