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		xarope 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editin... TIL my years of perl regex'ing was preparing me for a future of DNA gene warfare (core war, anybody?)

duskwuff 5 months ago [–]

I don't know if it still is, but, for a while, Perl was actually fairly popular in bioinformatics: https://bioperl.org/

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