Topics to cover •Introduction to BioPerl •Using Sequence & Feature modules •Using the modules for BLAST parser •Accessing sequence databases •Using the GFF processing modules •GFF Database •Evolutionary data •Trees and Population data Overview of Toolkit •Bioperl is... •A Set of Perl modules for manipulating genomic and other biological data •An Open Source Toolkit with many contributors •A flexible and extensible system for doing bioinformatics data manipulation