Bioperl is set of Perl Modules for bioinformatics. It contains objects for Sequences, features on Sequences, and other important bioinformatics attributes.
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The new features in this release include the beginnings of a HOWTO document for new users, Bio::Perl module extensions for easy functional usage of Bioperl, the start of Ontology support, improved SeqIO parsing speed and robustness when dealing with complete datasets, OMIM parsing and support for phenotypes, support for the new Entrez Web programmable resources, and improvements to Bio::SearchIO when parsing FASTA, WU-BLAST, and BLAST.