This indicates that in depth knowledge about biological problems is important for the development of resources that are then used by biologists. This page provides an application-oriented introduction into Perl , by directing you to information that helps to rapidly develop some crucial skills . Many of the links refer to the Programming Course for Bioinformatics and Internet by Vered Chalifa-Caspi and Jaime Prilusky at the Weizmann Institute of Science. If everything works, your program will beep and print the string test output on the screen. Loading a Web page Retrieving the content of a Web page is fairly easy with Perl, once you have lynx installed.
Lynx is a text-only Web browser.
You can see if you already have it on your UNIX system by simply typing lynx . Then, you can browser the Web, following links with cursor keys etc. As an alternative, you may also use WWW modules for Perl . You should get error messages, because we included a little typo. Read the next section.