Category Archives: Code

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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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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Biopython 1.56 released

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Peter

The Biopython team is pleased to release Biopython 1.56, almost exactly three months after our last stable release (Biopython 1.55). The Bio.SeqIO module has been updated to support protein EMBL files (used for the patents database), IMGT files (a variant … Continue reading →

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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 1.4.1 released

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Naohisa Goto

We are pleased to announce the release of BioRuby 1.4.1. This new release fixes bugs existed in 1.4.0 and new features are added. Here is a brief summary of changes.

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Biopython 1.55 released

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Peter

The Biopython team is proud to announce Biopython 1.55, a new stable release, about three months after our last stable release (Biopython 1.54) and the beta release earlier in August. A lot of work has been towards Python 3 support … 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 1.55 beta released

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Peter

We’ve just released a beta of Biopython 1.55 for user testing. Since Biopython 1.54 was released three months ago, we’ve made a good start on work for Python 3 support (via the 2to3 script), but as a side effect of … 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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