http://132.161.132.157/drupal6/taxonomy/term/116/0 en http://132.161.132.157/drupal6/node/48 The original Exploring Bioinformatics uses Perl as its primary programming language. Why are we making the switch to Python? For a number of reasons. <ul> <li>Evidence suggests that Python is easier to learn than Perl. </li><li>Python is typically used in an <em>interactive</em> style, which seems more natural for many of the explorations.</li> <li>Python is seeing increasing use in Bioinformatics.</li> </ul> http://132.161.132.157/drupal6/node/48#comments bioinformatics Perl python Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:42:20 +0000 rebelsky 48 at http://132.161.132.157/drupal6