I gradually realized the need for learning Perl and BioPerl among Biologists, together with the increasing demand for computational capacity under the revolutionary change in Biology because of Next-Generation-Sequencing techniques. I started to use Perl during my internship in 2010 at MPI Bremen where I learned Perl/BioPerl myself and assembled a successful pipeline, I also noticed that the focus of getting started with Perl for Biologists can be quite different--we do not really need to know all details about perl and we do not need to write a thousand line code--we simply need those stuff which are needed for biological purposes.

As a result of this, 12-13 January I organized a workshop that introduce Perl and Bioperl programming for Biologists in MPI Ploen. And despite the inexperience and time limitation, we managed to introduced the essential concepts and have writen a sample sequence analysis pipeline. This workshop has been repeated in Jan 2013 and will probably go on regularly.

I organized the slides and sample scripts with detailed explanation and hope this would benefit more biologists.