"Today I want to talk about how Perl helped the Human Genome Project.

The legend tells that somewhere in early February 1996, in Cambridge, England, in the largest DNA Sequencing centre in Europe, a meeting between scientists from Cambridge and from the largest DNA sequencing centre in the United States of America tried to solve a disconcerting problem: despite both DNA sequencing centres being using mainly the most laboratory techniques, databases, and data analysis tools, it was not possible to interchange data or meaningfully compare results between them..."