From BioPerl

https://profiles.google.com/cjfields1/about?hl=en_US

Who is this 'TimToady', and what is this 'Perl6' I keep hearing of?

Chris Fields is a researcher fellow for the Genomics of Neural and Behavioral Plasticity theme in the Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Chris has contributed a number of modules, including:

• Bio::DB::EUtilities - currently undergoing revisions
• Bio::SearchIO::rnamotif
• Bio::SearchIO::erpin
• Bio::SearchIO::infernal

He's also chipping in on other areas in Bioperl, more specifically with Bio::Tools::Run::RemoteBlast, Bio::SearchIO, and bioperl-db.

In February 2007 he became a core developer.

In Progress

• Biome - BioPerl implemented using Metaclass Extensions (BioPerl using Moose and Moose::*). The GitHub repository.
• BioPerl6 - Perl 6 implementation of BioPerl classes with Rakudo Perl as the Perl 6 implementation. The GitHub repository.
• bioperl-dev - Proposed starting place for new modules (may be deprecated in favor of pushing individually maintained, MooseX-like releases)
• Restructuring BioPerl - splitting BioPerl core up into more maintainable distributions
• BioPerl-related tools : integrating RNA secondary structure analysis within BioPerl, including several wrappers for RNA-based programs such as UNAFold, Infernal, and RNAMotif. These will likely be released as a separate distribution to CPAN.