Re: History behind pkgsrc 'biology' category

[Rene Hexel <rhexel%gmail.com@localhost>]

> On 6 Feb 2016, at 11:19 PM, matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 6:09 PM, Swift Griggs <swiftgriggs%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>> 
>> Again, not complaining. I think it's quirky and cool. I'm just curious.
> 
> […]
> If you recall, the late 90's and early 2000's saw a big push in
> bioinformatics, and especially with perl as a processing language.

  What Matthew said: not sure if, in hindsight, I would have made the same
decision today, but at the time, this appeared to be the trend …

  René