Here's a poll on the languages that practitioners are interested in learning: http://bioinformatics.org/poll/index.php?dispid=16&vo=16 (#1 Python, #2 Perl, #3 Java, #4 C/C++, ...) It's not a poll on which languages are actually *used*, but there should be (if not now, then someday) a good correlation. Jeff Kevin Karplus wrote: > I believe that the most common programming languages in bioinformatics > are perl, c, c++, java, and python, more or less in that order. > -- J.W. Bizzaro Bioinformatics Organization, Inc. (Bioinformatics.Org) E-mail: jeff at bioinformatics.org Phone: +1 508 890 8600 --