Archive for the ‘Development’ Category
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
Hi all,
We are pleased to announce the release of BioRuby 1.3.0.
The archive is available at:
http://bioruby.org/archive/bioruby-1.3.0.tar.gz
Web page:
http://bioruby.org/
http://bioruby.open-bio.org/
API documentation:
http://bioruby.org/rdoc/
Bug report:
http://rubyforge.org/projects/bioruby/
(Updating of http://bioruby.rubyforge.org/ is still
in progress. Please wait for a moment.)
We also put RubyGems pacakge at RubyForge as always.
You can easily install by ...
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
Please forward as appropriate and forgive multiple postings.
Call for Abstracts for the 2009 Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) 2009
An ISMB 2009 Special Interest Group (SIG)
Date: June 27-28, 2009
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
URL: http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2009
Abstract submission via EasyChair:
https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=bosc2009
Important Dates
Monday, April 13: Abstract deadline
May 1, 2009: Notification of accepted abstracts
May 15, 2009: Early Registration ...
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Friday, February 13th, 2009
Google is committed to run the Summer of Code program again this year. It will be for the 5th time.
In broad strokes, the program funds what you might call remote summer internships for students to contribute to an open-source software project. Projects (or umbrella organizations) wishing to participate in the program ...
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Sunday, January 25th, 2009
Release Pumpkin Chris Fields has announced the release of BioPerl 1.6 - the first stable release in a several years containing many significant improvements and bug fixes.
I am proud to announce, on behalf of the BioPerl core developers, that BioPerl 1.6.0 is now available. This is the first BioPerl core ...
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009
RC4 is up, we are days away from final release...
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Friday, December 26th, 2008
BioPerl has branched for 1.6 and the RC1 is up for testing as Chris announced.
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
BioPerl is preparing for version 1.6 release in the coming months. As part of this some restructuring and simplification of the packaging is occurring.
Bio-Graphics has been split off into its own package back on Sourceforge to allow for a separate release schedule. It will be uploaded to CPAN as a separate ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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