Author Archives: Jason Stajich

Server transition process to AWS servers

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Jason Stajich

Our aging server which has run for 5+ years the OBF sites has finally reached end of its lifespan. We are currently migrating sites to AWS volumes and sites for a temporary period while we decide about how to continue … Continue reading →

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BioPerl 1.6 released

Posted on January 25, 2009 by Jason Stajich

Release Pumpkin Chris Fields has announced the release of BioPerl 1.6 – the first stable release in a several years containing many significant improvements and bug fixes. I am proud to announce, on behalf of the BioPerl core developers, that … Continue reading →

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BioPerl 1.6 RC4

Posted on January 23, 2009 by Jason Stajich

RC4 is up, we are days away from final release…

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BioPerl branched for 1.6, RC1 is up

Posted on December 26, 2008 by Jason Stajich

BioPerl has branched for 1.6 and the RC1 is up for testing as Chris announced.

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BioPerl 1.6 preparations

Posted on December 9, 2008 by Jason Stajich

BioPerl is preparing for version 1.6 release in the coming months. As part of this some restructuring and simplification of the packaging is occurring. Continue reading →

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OBF Conference Call Board Meeting

Posted on November 18, 2008 by Jason Stajich

The OBF Conference call is scheduled for 12:30PM to 2PM PST on Wednesday Nov 19, 2008.  Members of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation and those interested in the decisions are invited to listen in and participate.  A brief agenda is available … Continue reading →

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OBF Board Meeting

Posted on November 8, 2008 by Jason Stajich

The OBF board meeting will be held via conference call on Nov 19, from 12:30PM to 2PM PST.  Agenda items and information about participating is available on the agenda webpage. We anticipate this call primarily to manage administrative tasks for … Continue reading →

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Are you going to ISMB/BOSC 2007?

Posted on July 9, 2007 by Jason Stajich

If you’ll be at BOSC or ISMB – please see this page and sign your name if you would like to try and meet up.  We’ll do a developer’s dinner as well as have a BoF. http://bioperl.org/wiki/BOSC2007_Meetup

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Hey what’s happening?

Posted on July 9, 2007 by Jason Stajich

So Mailing list summaries have stopped because we need someone else to help post these summaries. Not a light job unfortunately. If you are interested, please post to the mailing list or contact Jason, Sendu, or Chris for more details. … Continue reading →

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HOWTO automate tree drawing

Posted on June 15, 2007 by Jason Stajich

I updated the Trees HowTo with some code demonstrating how to automatically generate postscript trees from newick or nexus tree files. This uses the Bio::Tree::Draw::Cladogram module that will draw Phylograms or Cladograms. With a few unix tools (eps2png and epstopdf … Continue reading →

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