Installing Bioperl Perl and BioPerl are both open source projects Can be obtained for free via the Internet Both work on all major platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac OSX)

Installing on Windows Obtain and install ActivePerl from Activestate http://activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl Open the Perl Package Manager Open a command prompt (Start->Run) Type C:\>ppm and run it Add repositories >ppm> rep add Bribes http://www.Bribes.org/perl/ppm

Installing on Windows 4. Search for BioPerl ppm> search Bioperl 5. This returns a numbered list of packages ppm> install <number> Where <number> is the number of the desired version

Installing on Linux/Unix/Mac These platforms probably already have Perl installed Download the latest release of BioPerl http://bioperl.org/DIST/ Uncompress the downloaded files >gunzip bioperl-1.5.2_102.tar.gz >tar xvf bioperl-1.5.2_102.tar >cd bioperl-1.5.2_102

Installing on Linux/Unix/Mac Build BioPerl >perl Build.PL >Build test This may fail some tests. A few failed tests may not affect your usage. Install BioPerl >./Build install