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On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 EMAIL:PROTECTED wrote:
> >> I see most of people in bioinformatics who did lot of
> >> stuff in perl with bioperl, now switching on to Java.
> >
> > That is interesting. Any idea why they are switching?
>
> Probably because the CompSci departments don't teach Perl. Also,
> because lots of other "enterprise" applications run in a Java
> environment, and they have Java talent around elsewhere in the
> organization, more than Perl talent.
Another big point is that, if memory serves, part or all of EMBOSS
is written in java. And there is an efficency point or two: if I'm
(say) searching the entire mouse genome for potential promotors that
could bind a given set of transcription factors...it's conceivable
that there would be something faster than Perl. :-)
jking
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