The BioPerl Project is an international association of developers of open
source Perl tools for bioinformatics, genomics and life science research.

BioPerl is a collection of object-oriented Perl modules created by the
BioPerl Project. It forms the basis of a large number of bioinformatics and
genomics applications.

(For an interesting aside on "How Perl saved the Human Genome Project", see
http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/How_Perl_saved_human_genome)