Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Thursday, May 20th, 2010
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 bug fixes.
This is the first stable release to feature ...
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Friday, May 14th, 2010
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 to our prior Subversion repository), please sign up for a GitHub ...
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Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
Just a friendly reminder that abstracts for BOSC 2010 are due next Thursday, April 15. See the BOSC web site at http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2010 for details. Submissions will only be accepted electronically at http://events.open-bio.org/BOSC2010/openconf.php.
Graduate students, don't forget we are offering $250 student travel awards this year. Be sure to check the box ...
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Friday, December 18th, 2009
BOSC 2010 is currently in the planning stages. It will be held for 2 days in conjunction with the 18th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2010) in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The dates of BOSC 2010 are July 9-10; the main ISMB Conference runs July 11-13, ...
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
I'm delighted to announce an open access publication in Nucleic Acids Research describing the FASTQ file format based on the conventions agreed by the OBF projects:
The Sanger FASTQ file format for sequences with quality scores, and the Solexa/Illumina FASTQ variants
Peter J. A. Cock (Biopython), Christopher J. Fields (BioPerl), Naohisa Goto ...
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Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
Two of the core BioPerl developers, Jason Stajich and Chris Fields, were interviewed by FLOSS Weekly. The interview is now available as an MP3 on the FLOSS Weekly website; several streaming versions (including podcast) are also available.
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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of BioPerl 1.6.1, the latest release of BioPerl's core code. You can grab it here:
Via CPAN:
http://search.cpan.org/~cjfields/BioPerl-1.6.1/
Via the BioPerl website:
http://bioperl.org/DIST/BioPerl-1.6.1.tar.bz2
http://bioperl.org/DIST/BioPerl-1.6.1.tar.gz
http://bioperl.org/DIST/BioPerl-1.6.1.zip
The PPM for Windows should also finally be available this week, ActivePerl problems permitting (we will post more information when it ...
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Alan Ruttenberg of Science Commons and Robert Hanmer of the Hillside Group have been confirmed as Keynote Speakers for BOSC 2009. For more information, see the BOSC 2009 web site at http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2009.
Abstract acceptances went out today--stay tuned for the schedule, which will be posted once the speakers have confirmed their ...
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
Just to let you all know, Biopython is now on twitter. And in case you missed the OBF announcement last month, so is the O|B|F News feed (and BioPerl). You are welcome to follow us (all) on twitter.
I'd also like to remind people there are news feeds ...
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
A wiki page for collecting ideas, possible projects, prerequisites, possible solution approaches, mentors, other people or channels to contact for more information or to bounce ideas off of, etc. has been setup:
http://open-bio.org/wiki/Google_Summer_Code_2009
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