I am a senior biology student at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C. I have been working in a plant genetics lab for several years now. Before beginning school in Biology I was intensely interested in computer science and programming. Specifically, I have always had an interest in video game development and programming. Thus I have a fair amount of experience with languages such as Basic, C#, C++ and C, as well as various game engine s‎crip‎ting languages such as, UnrealS‎crip‎t, Game Maker Language (GML), and Papyrus. My prior programming experience and interest has unsurprisingly led me a little in the direction of bioinformatics (and thus the use of perl for this purpose