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Languages for Bioinformatics

Dear Bioinformaticians, please tell what languages are important for bioinformatics?

python biopython r

R and Python are popular for a lot of downstream analysis tasks. If you're doing any appreciable software develoment C++, Rust, and/or Java are common. Bash scriping is a must.

Please invest some effort to search this site, and you will find dozens of answers to your question. Your question is too general to elicit any serious effort at answering it. Once you go through similar threads and assuming that you can restrict the question to a more specific area, more detailed answers may be forthcoming.

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This has been asked many times before, here an almost complete list of former biostars questions on the matter: Best programming language for bioinformatics - R Language

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