title: BioSmalltalk: a pure object system and library for bioinformatics.
abstract: CONCLUSIONS
  We have developed BioSmalltalk, a new environment system for pure object-oriented bioinformatics programming. Adaptive end-user programming systems tend to become more important for discovering biological knowledge, as is demonstrated by the emergence of open-source programming toolkits for bioinformatics in the past years. Our software is intended to bridge the gap between bioscientists and rapid software prototyping while preserving the possibility of scaling to whole-system biology applications. BioSmalltalk performs better in terms of execution time and memory usage than Biopython and BioPerl for some classical situations.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  BioSmalltalk is cross-platform and freely available (MIT license) through the Google Project Hosting at http://code.google.com/p/biosmalltalk
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  hernan.morales@gmail.com
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Genética Veterinaria IGEVET, CONICET La Plata-Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata B1900AVW, CC 296 Argentina. hernan.morales@gmail.com
authors.forename: Hernán F
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Morales
authors.forename: Guillermo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Giovambattista
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D017421:Sequence Analysis; D012984:Software