Archive for the ‘Development’ Category

Biopython release 1.49

Friday, November 21st, 2008

We are pleased to announce the release of Biopython 1.49. There have been some significant changes since Biopython 1.48 was released a few months ago, which is why we initially released a beta for wider testing. Thank you to all those who tried this and reported the minor problems ...

Biopython 1.49 beta released

Friday, November 7th, 2008

We are pleased to announce a beta release of Biopython 1.49. There are been some significant changes since Biopython 1.48 was released two months ago, which is why we are initially releasing a beta for wider testing. As previously announced, the big news is that Biopython now uses NumPy rather than ...

Biopython and Python 2.6 (and Python 2.3)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

Many of you will be aware that Python 2.6 was released a month ago (October 1st, 2008). This supports a lot of new syntax and functionality, but also deprecates some old modules (e.g. the sets module). While Biopython 1.48 does mostly work with Python 2.6, we've been testing with Python ...

Biopython, Numeric and numpy

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

To date, Biopython releases have relied on the original numerical python library, Numeric (used in python with "import Numeric").  In the next release we will at last be moving to its successor, NumPy (used in python with "import numpy"). This transition is already under way in the Biopython source code repository.  ...

Hey what’s happening?

Monday, July 9th, 2007

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. This is one way you can help BioPerl ...

Bioperl 1.5.2 Release

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

I'm proud to announce the final release of Bioperl 1.5.2. Full details are available at http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Release_1.5.2

RC5 for 1.5.2

Monday, November 27th, 2006

Sendu has posted 1.5.2 RC5. There may be a few more kinks to work out, so try this release and report if there are problems with the tests.

RC 1.5.3

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

Sendu has announced that Release Candidate 3 is available for download and testing. This may be the last RC before the 1.5.2 release so give it a whirl and speak up with any problems or concerns.

Mediawiki updated

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

Bioperl wiki is now running Mediawiki 1.8.2. nothing too different under the hood at this point, the mediawiki people probably have more to say in the release-notes.

Next BioPerl Release

Thursday, August 10th, 2006

We are currently planning a timetable for the next few Bioperl releases, including the next developer release (v1.5.2), the next stable release (1.6) and beyond. Users are welcome to add requests (within reason!), donate code, etc. Lots of changes in store! The release schedule can be found here. ...