Archive for the ‘BioPerl’ Category

Beginners HOWTO

Tuesday, February 8th, 2005

Brian Osborne and James Thompson have written a Bioperl HOWTO for beginners, for those who are interested in learning about Bioperl but have done very little programmming. Topics include creating a Sequence object, I/O and files, retrieving from Genbank, and using the Sequence object.

Bioperl 1.5.0 released

Saturday, January 29th, 2005

Bioperl 1.5.0 Developer's release is available for download. =============================================== http://bioperl.org/DIST/bioperl-1.5.0.tar.bz2 425ac55ecbb4339b7b532ba6d429bb40 http://bioperl.org/DIST/bioperl-1.5.0.tar.gz 172472f0675de9a583432e21c9b1b5fc http://bioperl.org/DIST/bioperl-1.5.0.zip 3febcd2445a7393c65981a6f9f13a9ed We'll update the website to reflect this new release. The odd-numbered releases are called developer releases and are not deposited on CPAN. Please note that the API in 1.5.0 may change before the ...

Bioperl 1.5 RC 2

Wednesday, January 12th, 2005

Release candidate 2 of Bioperl 1.5.0 is ready for downloading and testing. Please report back to the bioperl list with any problems. We would like to make a developer release by the end of January 2005. http://bioperl.org/DIST/bioperl-1.5.0-RC2.tar.gz http://bioperl.org/DIST/bioperl-1.5.0-RC2.tar.bz2 http://bioperl.org/DIST/bioperl-1.5.0-RC2.zip

Bioperl 2005 Summary

Wednesday, December 29th, 2004

I just wanted to use the end of the year as a chance to reflect on what we've accomplished in 2004 and think about what 2005 holds for Bioperl. List Message

Bioperl preparing 1.5 release

Sunday, November 14th, 2004

Bioperl developers are preparing a 1.5 release, you can grab the pre-release for testing at http://bioperl.org/DIST. We would greatly appreciate you downloading and testing this code before it is released by running 'make test'. See Aaron's post announcing the RC1 candidate.

Bioperl Bootcamp June 21-25

Tuesday, April 6th, 2004

The Mailing list post Continuing on the BioJava Bootcamp of 2003, The Quebec Bioinformatics Network (BioneQ) is organizing its first BioPerl Bootcamp, to be held at the Universite de Montreal from June 21-25 2004. The invited speakers are leaders in the use of Perl in bioinformatics and development of BioPerl: Aaron Mackey (U. of Pennsylvania) Jason Stajich ...

Bioperl 1.4 for Windows

Friday, February 20th, 2004

Bioperl version 1.4 for Windows is available. Thanks once again to Nigam Shah for creating and testing the PPM and PPD files.

BioKnoppix

Wednesday, February 18th, 2004

BioKnoppix is a new live CD linux, based on KNOPPIX, with EMBOSS 2.8.0, jemboss, artemis, clustalx, Cn3D, ImageJ, BioPython, Rasmol, Bioperl, Bioconductor. It being made available by The University of Puerto Rico High Performance Computing facility (HPCf) and the Puerto Rico Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (BRIN-PR). Great stuff!

Bioperl Release 1.4

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2003

The stable Bioperl release 1.4 is available for immediate use at: http://bioperl.org/DIST. We are releasing simultaneously three modules: bioperl-core - core bioperl modules ( gz b2z) bioperl-ext - C compiled extensions ( gz b2z) bioperl-run - wrappers for external programs ( gz b2z) They will also appear shortly at the IUBIO mirror (later today) and in CPAN. Remember, all the external modules needed by ...

SVG support for Bio::Graphics

Wednesday, November 26th, 2003

Todd Harris has released GD::SVG in CPAN. This module implements support for most features of GD that are used by Bio::Graphics (together with the SVG module). Try out the publication publication quality graphics directly from CVS and help to squash the last bugs before stable bioperl release. See all_glyphs.pl and dynamic_glyphs.pl in examples/biographics directory.