George,
A search at AltaVista on "+java +bioinformatics" returned 16949 web pages
so that might be a good starting point for you.
You may find Tom Christiansen's complex datastructure modules and
implementations on CPAN helpful for future Perl projects...
http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/TOMC/scripts/CS-Talk/source/dstructs
Here are some Bioinformatic Java Applications from my bookmarks...
The CBIL group at the University of Pennsylvania maintains bioWidgets for Java
http://www.cbil.upenn.edu/bioWidgets/index.html
Don Gilbert has written some nice Applications
http://iubio.bio.indiana.edu/soft/molbio/java/apps/
Lincoln Stein has written a Java interface to ACEDB
http://stein.cshl.org/jade/
JaMBW, the Java based Molecular Biologist's Workbench
http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/JaMBW/
Regards,
Joe
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Joseph Ryan
Perl Freak
National Human Genome Research Institute
On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 04:06:29PM -0400, George Armhold wrote:
>> I am interested in hearing of any freely-available Java
> implementations of software for molecular biology. There is certainly
> no dearth of Perl implementations, but I have seen very little done in
> Java. If you have written or have access to some code you would like
> to share, please drop me a note. Depending on the response I get, I
> am considering setting up some sort of repository similar to what they
> have done on http://bio.perl.org.>> A few words about my motivation. I am a programmer relatively new to
> the field of Bioinformatics. I've certainly written my share of Perl
> code, and recognize its value. At the present time, nothing can beat
> Perl when it comes to parsing text, which is a task performed
> constantly in this field. However there are times when Perl is
> downright frustrating to use due to its lack of support for complex
> data structures. The text-parsing abilities of Java are gradually
> improving, and IMHO some applications would benefit from being written
> in Java, even considering the relatively poor state of its
> text-parsing code at the present moment compared to Perl.
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