Archive for the ‘Development’ Category

Modware: a BioPerl based API for Chado

Thursday, May 18th, 2006

We are announcing a new Sourceforge Project called Modware. It is an object-oriented API written in Perl that creates BioPerl object representations of biological features stored in a Chado database. It basically creates a Bio::Seq object for chromosomes in Chado and creates Bio::SeqFeature::Gene objects for protein coding transcripts stored 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!

ListSummaries for April 26-May 9

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

ListSummaries for April 26-May 9 are up at the usual place: http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Mailing_list_summaries Direct link: http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/ListSummary:April_26-May_9%2C2006 It’s a bit of a hurried one so don’t be surprised to find a few spelling errors here and there. I’m getting ready for a conference in a couple weeks so I may be off the radar a ...

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 ...

Developer accounts re-issued

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

We are moving developer repository to a new server which will require you to get a new developer account. To fix your local repository you should be able to run this on your local repository: $ find bioperl -name 'Root' | xargs perl -i.backup -p -e 's/pub\.open/dev.open/' or just check out a ...

Discussions about modules that run BLAST

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

Some discussion about changing how the RemoteBlast module behaves. If you have feedback respond to Roger's post. Also see these posts Chris Field's post (1) Chris Field's post (2) Roger volunteering to take on maintenance

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, ...