From lsprilus at bioinfo2.weizmann.ac.il Wed Jun 18 00:04:21 2003 From: lsprilus at bioinfo2.weizmann.ac.il (Jaime Prilusky) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:35:51 2004 Subject: [Rehovot-pm] where Perl is a Desirable Skill Message-ID: <200306180504.h5I54Ml21376@bioinfo2.weizmann.ac.il> This is from an actual call for a Senior position in a company. I thought this might interest to those that ask: Who needs Perl? In this call for a scientific position look under "Desirable Skills". Senior Drug Discovery Applications Scientist Job Description: Actively participate in Drug Discovery Applications Group projects ... Essential Qualifications and Experience: Ph.D. in computational chemistry, organic chemistry, or biochemistry ... Desirable Skills: Programming skills: Perl script writing, in particular. Experience with chemical databases Jaim -- Dr Jaime Prilusky | Jaime.Prilusky@weizmann.ac.il Weizmann Institute of Science | fax: 972-8-9344113 76100 Rehovot - Israel | tel: 972-8-9344959 info URL http://bioportal.weizmann.ac.il/staff/jaime_prilusky.html OCA is at http://bioportal.weizmann.ac.il/oca/ Perl Users in Rehovot http://rehovot.pm.org/ From home at leegoddard.com Thu Jun 19 04:14:12 2003 From: home at leegoddard.com (Lee Goddard) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:35:52 2004 Subject: [Rehovot-pm] Re: [Perl] where Perl is a Desirable Skill In-Reply-To: <200306180504.h5I54Ml21376@bioinfo2.weizmann.ac.il> References: <200306180504.h5I54Ml21376@bioinfo2.weizmann.ac.il> Message-ID: <941260109.20030619111412@leegoddard.com> Wednesday, June 18, 2003, 7:04:21 AM, James wrote: JP> ... I thought this might interest to those that ask: Who needs JP> Perl? ... I seem to remember a lot of the work on the human genome project was written in Perl, too. From jswarz at attbi.com Thu Jun 19 17:27:19 2003 From: jswarz at attbi.com (jswarz@attbi.com) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:35:52 2004 Subject: [Rehovot-pm] who needs perl? we all do. Message-ID: <200306192227.h5JMRQK03884@mail.pm.org> Hello folks. I'd like to add my part on who needs PERL. I am currently doing some bioinformatics for a genetics lab in the US. The beauty of perl is that you can manipulate biological data (i.e. nucleotide sequences) which does not convert very well into 0's and 1's. Languages like JAVA do not have the capacity to manipulate textual references which convey enormous amounts of information to the biological researcher. PERL solves most of that. While bioinformatics may fade as a discipline in and of itself, within the next decade, all researchers in the biological sciences will need to have a facility with perl to accomodate high-throughput analysis in the course of their everyday work. Keep in touch. JAS