Archive for the ‘Development’ Category

BioRuby 1.3.0 is released

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 ...

BOSC 2009 Call for Abstracts

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 ...

Google Summer of Code: Call for Bio* Volunteers

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 ...

BioPerl 1.6 released

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 ...

BioPerl 1.6 RC4

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

RC4 is up, we are days away from final release...

BioPerl branched for 1.6, RC1 is up

Friday, December 26th, 2008

BioPerl has branched for 1.6 and the RC1 is up for testing as Chris announced.

BioPerl 1.6 preparations

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 ...

Biopython release 1.49

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 ...

Biopython 1.49 beta released

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 ...

Biopython and Python 2.6 (and Python 2.3)

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 ...