It is fascinating that we get a bunch of biological #sequence #aligners to choose from in #bioinformatics , but no standardized terminology of their modes, or API (you can find a bewildering mix of libraries and CLI). This is gap for researchers who want to try different tools, and likely for companies in the #NGS #sequencing space too. The first is the reason I am flexing my #perl skills , leveraging the new lang features to create a standardized API for many of the recent tools. @Perl