Performance Evaluation of BioPerl, Biojava, BioPython, BioRuby and BioSmalltalk for Executing Bioinformatics Tasks

Authors

  • Moitra D Dept. of Management, University of North Bengal, Darjeeling-734013.
  • RK Samanta Dept. of Computer Science & Application University of North Bengal, Darjeeling–734013.

Keywords:

Bioinformatics, Bio* projects, BioPerl, Biojava, BioPython, BioRuby, BioSmalltalk

Abstract

In the recent years, Bioinformatics and computational biology are two of some important and active research disciplines. Finding insights into biology, information technology tools in the form of programming languages suitable for biology along with data mining tools and techniques are deployed. The open source programming languages used in bioinformatics are informally called Bio* projects. This work explores the performances of BioPerl, Biojava, BioPython, BioRuby, BioSmalltalk under Bio* projects for executing bioinformatics tasks.

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Published

2015-02-28

How to Cite

[1]
D. Moitra and R. Samanta, “Performance Evaluation of BioPerl, Biojava, BioPython, BioRuby and BioSmalltalk for Executing Bioinformatics Tasks”, Int. J. Comp. Sci. Eng., vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 157–164, Feb. 2015.

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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2015): IJCSE Special Issue February Edition

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Research Article

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