This is the README file for Bio::ASN1::EntrezGene package, which includes: 1. XML parser-like parser for the ASN.1-formatted NCBI Entrez Gene files. 2. Indexer for Entrez Gene files. 3. XML parser-like parser for the ASN.1-formatted NCBI Sequence files. 4. Indexer for Sequence files. These modules have quite high performance and error reporting capabilities. Additionally, one could dump the data structure generated from extracted NCBI object records into XML extremely easily using XML::Simple's XMLout(). Written and maintained by Dr. Mingyi Liu . Copyright (c) 2005 Mingyi Liu, GPC Biotech, Altana Research Institute. All rights reserved. This program is free software - you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. INSTALLATION Bio::ASN1::EntrezGene package can be installed & tested as follows: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install DOCUMENTATION For documentation, among many other things, please refer to the POD ( plain old documentation) inside the module. It is highly recommended that you check the example scripts out (under the examples directory)!