BioPerl is a collection of Perl modules that facilitate the development of Perl scripts for bioinformatics. It is open source and widely used in the bioinformatics community. Bioperl provides software modules for many of the typical tasks of bioinformatics programming. These include:
- Accessing sequence data from local and remote databases
- Transforming formats of database/ file records
- Manipulating individual sequences
- Searching for similar sequences
- Creating and manipulating sequence alignments
- Searching for genes and other structures on genomic DNA
- Developing machine readable sequence annotations