<s>
BioPHP	B-Application
is	O
a	O
collection	O
of	O
open-source	B-Application
PHP	B-Application
code	O
,	O
with	O
classes	O
for	O
DNA	O
and	O
protein	O
sequence	O
analysis	O
,	O
alignment	O
,	O
database	O
parsing	O
,	O
and	O
other	O
bioinformatics	O
tools	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
BioRuby	B-Application
is	O
released	O
under	O
the	O
GNU	B-License
GPL	I-License
version	O
2	O
licence	O
and	O
is	O
one	O
of	O
a	O
number	O
of	O
Bio*	O
projects	O
,	O
designed	O
to	O
reduce	O
code	O
duplication	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
an	O
open	O
source	O
bioinformatics	O
project	O
,	O
BioPHP	B-Application
is	O
affiliated	O
with	O
the	O
Open	B-Application
Bioinformatics	I-Application
Foundation	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
BioPHP	B-Application
project	O
grew	O
out	O
of	O
GenePHP	O
,	O
which	O
was	O
started	O
by	O
Serge	O
Gregorio	O
in	O
2003	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
GenePHP	O
was	O
conceived	O
as	O
a	O
PHP-based	O
implementation	O
of	O
similar	O
bioinformatics	O
packages	O
such	O
as	O
BioPerl	B-Application
and	O
BioPython	B-Library
and	O
BioRuby	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
BioPHP	B-Application
was	O
developed	O
in	O
December	O
2005	O
by	O
Joseba	O
Bikandi	O
at	O
the	O
University	O
of	O
the	O
Basque	O
Country	O
,	O
Spain	O
as	O
an	O
extension	O
of	O
GenePHP	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
GenePHP	O
is	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
four	O
projects	O
currently	O
forming	O
BioPHP	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
BioPHP	B-Application
is	O
divided	O
into	O
four	O
'	O
projects	O
 '	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Each	O
class	O
is	O
designed	O
to	O
be	O
general	O
enough	O
to	O
be	O
useful	O
in	O
a	O
number	O
of	O
BioPHP	B-Application
projects	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Minitools	O
and	O
Tools	O
projects	O
aim	O
to	O
generate	O
a	O
set	O
of	O
PHP	B-Application
scripts	I-Application
for	O
small	O
,	O
repetitive	O
tasks	O
;	O
scripts	O
in	O
the	O
Tools	O
project	O
generally	O
have	O
special	O
requirements	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
interfacing	O
with	O
non-PHP	O
scripts	O
and/or	O
code	O
(	O
written	O
in	O
,	O
for	O
instance	O
,	O
Perl	B-Language
or	O
C	B-Language
)	O
.	O
</s>
