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by cjfields1 4209 days ago
Agreed re: implied superiority. I view all the Bio* are toolkits, frankly, and thus pieces of those toolkits are developed based on the wants/needs of users (some of whom simply do not know perl). BioPerl just happened to be one of the first out of the gates (~1997, in a primordial state), but Biopython and BioJava were also out around 2000 or so IIRC.

Re: FASTA comment support, I haven't ever seen it's use in the wild.