[Biodevelopers] Some questions concerning how should we use perl modules

[Afonso Guerra Assunção]

Hi,
I learned perl/bioperl at a bioinformatics course and they also 
encouraged us to make our own functions/routines, nevertheless I 
personally prefer using something that is already done, maybe modify-it 
to suit my personal needs instead of writing from scratch. My main rule 
is: "If it has already been done, use-it, if not, build-it yourself". If 
you use everything as is, you may end up using loads of modules for 
simple functions, in that case I think its preferable to compile the 
needed functions in a new, application specific module, as it is more 
resource friendly this way.

Best Regards,
Afonso

Phil- wrote:
> Hi, all!
>
> 	I've been working using bioperl, EnsEMBL API, TFBS and some other perl module for bioinformatic research for some time. So of course I want to write my own module, too. But when joining the other research groups, I found that some of them do not ever use those modules like bioperl.
> 	What I really want to ask is, 
>
> 	Are these modules such as bioperl really improving our efficiency? Or are they improving our efficiency at some kind of work and decreasing at the others? How can we decide when to use these modules or not? Besides, when I should give some time on moduling my own codes?
>
> 	Thank you very much!
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> 　　　　　　　　Phil-
> 　　　　　　　　phil- at 126.com
> 　　　　　　　　　　2006-10-19
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