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Perl
Perl Our VMs have Perl 5.16.3 available as part of the base linux VM. Licensed as open source under the GPL, it is most often used to develop mission critical software, and has excellent integration with markup languages such as HTML, XML, amongst others. Since it is both Object Oriented as well as procedural, it could be used within a multitude of programming projects. It includes built in database integration via its DBI module. Other than DBI, it has thousands of modules, making it one of the most extensible languages. Due to its interpreted nature, Perl is similar to Python and would be easy to understand for those familiar with Python.
BART Web
BART (Binding Analysis for Regulation of Transcription) Web Working with researchers in the Zang Lab in the Center for Public Health Genomics (CPHG), RC helped launch BARTweb, an interactive web-based tool for users to analyze their Genelist or ChIP-seq datasets. BARTweb is a containerized Flask front-end (written in Python) that ingests files and submits them to a more robust Python-based genomics pipeline running on Rivanna, UVA’s high performance computing cluster (HPC). This architecture – of a public web application that uses a supercomputer to process data – is a new model for UVA, and one that eases the learning curve for researchers who may not have access to an HPC system or the expertise to run a BART pipeline in the command-line.
