E. Distinction between BioLisp and BioBIKE language

1. Overview of BioLisp and BioBIKE language
2. Principles behind BioBIKE
3. Cost/Benefit analysis of BioLisp vs BioBIKE language

E.1. Overview of BioLisp and BioBIKE language

• Lisp is a fast general purpose programming language. Anything you can get a digital computer to do, you can probably use Lisp to do it.
   
  
• BioLisp extends Lisp by providing a programming environment and functions to access and manipulate mass biological data and to interface with standard tools of bioinformatics. Anything you can do in Lisp (in a web environment) you can also do within BioLisp.
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• BioBIKE provides additional functions to BioLisp that relax the syntactical rules of Lisp and combine multiple commands into single commands more familiar to the biologist. It is designed to make it easier for a biologist without programming experience to access the power of BioLisp. However, it remains possible to access all the functionality of Lisp and BioLisp.
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  Click here to get to an annotated list of BioBIKE functions.
   

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