Author Archives: Chris Fields

BioPerl-DB, BioPerl-Run, BioPerl-Network 1.6.9 released

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Chris Fields

The latest BioPerl-DB, BioPerl-Run, and BioPerl-Network code has been released to CPAN: BioPerl-Run BioPerl-DB BioPerl-Network Please report any bugs to our Redmine server. Enjoy! chris

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BioPerl 1.6.9 released

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Chris Fields

BioPerl 1.6.9 is now available in CPAN.  In this release: Refactored Bio::Species/Bio::Tree New SeqIO modules (gbxml, msout, mbsout) Updates for perl 5.12 Bio::Assembly support for SAM/BAM, Newbler, ace output Bio::DB::SeqFeature updates PAML updated to work with v. 4.4d lots of … Continue reading →

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Introduction of OpenID logins for OBF wikis

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Chris Fields

Due to a huge influx of spam across all OBF wikis, we are in the process of locking down new user account creation and adding OpenID logins for the OBF wikis (BioPerl example). User account creation via the old login … Continue reading →

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OBF Redmine server now available

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Chris Fields

The OBF now has a sparkly new Redmine instance running on Amazon EC2, thanks to efforts from Chris Dagdigian and Jason Stajich (with some admin help from yours truly).  Bugs and user names (along with email contacts) from our old Bugzilla … Continue reading →

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BioPerl has moved to GitHub

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Chris Fields

BioPerl has migrated to git and GitHub!  We have also set up a mirror set of several key repositories at the great public git hosting site repo.or.cz. If you are a current BioPerl developer (had a previous account for direct access … Continue reading →

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BioPerl at GMOD Meeting 2010

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Chris Fields

BioPerl developers and users attended the BioPerl satellite meeting on January 13th, just prior to the GMOD Meeting.  Several items were covered on the agenda: In order to start addressing whole genome data with more lightweight objects, we are planning on … Continue reading →

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BioPerl interview in latest FLOSS Weekly

Posted on November 22, 2009 by Chris Fields

Two of the core BioPerl developers, Jason Stajich and Chris Fields, were interviewed by FLOSS Weekly.  The interview is now available as an MP3 on the FLOSS Weekly website; several streaming versions (including podcast) are also available.

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BioPerl core 1.6.1 PPM available

Posted on October 10, 2009 by Chris Fields

BioPerl 1.6.1 is now available for ActivePerl as a PPM, instructions for downloading can be found on the BioPerl wiki. This has been tested only for ActivePerl 5.10 and above, so any feedback with older versions of BioPerl would be … Continue reading →

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First 1.6.1 alphas of BioPerl-Run, BioPerl-DB, BioPerl-Network

Posted on October 1, 2009 by Chris Fields

Running a bit late on this, so just a quick note that the first alphas for BioPerl-Run, BioPerl-DB, and BioPerl-Network have been uploaded to CPAN: BioPerl-Run BioPerl-DB BioPerl-Network They can also be downloaded from the BioPerl website: http://bioperl.org/DIST/RC/ This is … Continue reading →

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BioPerl 1.6.1 released

Posted on September 29, 2009 by Chris Fields

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of BioPerl 1.6.1, the latest release of BioPerl’s core code. You can grab it here: Via CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/~cjfields/BioPerl-1.6.1/ Via the BioPerl website: http://bioperl.org/DIST/BioPerl-1.6.1.tar.bz2 http://bioperl.org/DIST/BioPerl-1.6.1.tar.gz http://bioperl.org/DIST/BioPerl-1.6.1.zip The PPM for Windows should also finally … Continue reading →

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