да это просто праздник какой-то: "The BioPHP project grew out of GenePHP"... "GenePHP was conceived as a PHP-based implementation of similar bioinformatics packages such as BioPerl and BioPython and BioRuby"
там короче делится на части. И одна из них "Tools projects" - "have special requirements, such as interfacing with non-PHP scripts and/or code (written in, for instance, Perl or C)"!