Archive for the ‘Documentation’ Category

Updated PDoc software

Monday, June 26th, 2006

Raphaël Leplae has updated the Pdoc software to have an improved stylesheet and fix several bugs including problems rendering Bio::DB::Fasta. Thanks a lot Raphaël and Patrick Meidl for getting the bugs reported and fixed for this nice POD to HTML converter. You can see the Pdoc for Bioperl packages in ...

Deobfuscator interface now available

Sunday, May 14th, 2006

I'm glad to announce the availability of the Deobfuscator interface at the BioPerl website. You can use it at the following URL: http://bioperl.org/cgi-bin/deob_interface.cgi Many thanks to Laura Kavanaugh and David Messina for this great contribution to the BioPerl project!

BioPerl-run in FreeBSD

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

It's my great pleasure to announce the availability of the BioPerl-run packages (stable & developer releases) for the FreeBSD operating system. For instructions on how to install BioPerl ports in FreeBSD, please take a look into the Getting Bioperl section of the BioPerl Wiki.

Bioperl ListSummaries for April 12-25

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

The newest summary of the BioPerl mailing lists has been posted to the wiki: April 12-25 Post gripes, harrassments, and faint praises at the regular places.

BioPerl Mailing List Summaries

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

The first of a biweekly summary of BioPerl mailing list summaries has been posted to the wiki: April 1-11 These will likely be archived on the wiki but may be moved to a more suitable location in the future (maybe to this blog?).

Weekly Mailing List Traffic Summaries

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

I plan on starting a weekly, possibly biweekly, summary of mailing list traffic. These will be somewhat in the same vein as the Perl5 or Perl6 summaries and will be posted on the blog here and sent to the bioperl-l mail list. Barring another natural disaster here, these ...

Installation files added to website

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

Installation instructions for Bioperl have been added to the main Bioperl website. They have been updated with links and tags for the wiki. Currently, both pages are accessible through links from Getting Bioperl and Installing Bioperl; these links will be subject to change. Please correct lins/tags/information as ...

BioPerl on Mac OS X using fink

Monday, January 30th, 2006

Instructions on how to install BioPerl on Mac OS X have been added to the Wiki, specifically at the Getting Bioperl section. Thanks to Koen van der Drift for contributing with this info. We continue to encourage people who is taking care of creating packages for other platforms (specific Linux distributions, ...

Developer Release in FreeBSD

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

The Developer Release (1.5.1) of BioPerl has been brought back into the FreeBSD Ports Collection. For instructions on how to install it, please take a look into the Getting Bioperl section of the BioPerl Wiki. We encourage people who is taking care of creating packages for other platforms (specific Linux distributions, ...