Category Archives: Community

Biopython 1.58 released

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Peter

Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.58 are available from the downloads page on the Biopython website and from the Python Package Index (PyPI). A new interface and parsers for the PAML (Phylogenetic Analysis by Maximum Likelihood) package of … Continue reading →

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OBF and Google Summer of Code 2011

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Peter

Google announced today the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) has been accepted as a mentoring organization for the 2011 Google Summer of Code! 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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Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2011) Call for Abstracts

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Peter

Call for talk and poster abstracts for the 12th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2011), an ISMB 2011 SIG meeting to be held in Vienna, Austria, July 2011. Continue reading →

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BOSC 2010 Proceedings published today in BMC Bioinformatics

Posted on December 21, 2010 by Kam Dahlquist

On behalf of the BOSC 2010 Organizing Committee, I am pleased to announce that the BOSC 2010 Proceedings has been published today in BMC Bioinformatics.  Special thanks go to the abstract and proceedings reviewers who helped make this possible.

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Biopython dropping Python 2.4 Support?

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Peter

The forthcoming Biopython 1.56 release is planned to be our last release to support Python 2.4. If you would be negatively affected us dropping support for Python 2.4, please let us know as soon as possible. Continue reading →

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BioRuby paper published

Posted on August 26, 2010 by Naohisa Goto

After 10 years of development, the BioRuby paper is finally published in the Bioinformatics journal.  The article is open access, so please take a look. BioRuby: Bioinformatics software for the Ruby programming language Naohisa Goto, Pjotr Prins, Mitsuteru Nakao, Raoul … Continue reading →

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Biopython 1.54 released

Posted on May 20, 2010 by davidw

The Biopython team is proud to announce Biopython 1.54, a new stable release of the Biopython library. Biopython 1.54 comes five months after our last release and brings new features, tweaks to some established functions and the usual collection of … 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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