Archive for the ‘BioPerl’ Category

Recent BioPerl additions and bug fixes

Thursday, August 14th, 2003

Jason has summarized a significant amount of work he has done on the CVS tree. Major work done on Bio::PopGen, Bio::Matrix and bug fixes to Bio::Tree and Bio::SeqIO. All the juicy details can be read in his bioperl posting archived here: http://bioperl.org/pipermail/bioperl-l/2003-August/013168.html

new restriction analysis classes

Tuesday, July 15th, 2003

Rob Edwards and Heikki Lehvaslaiho have been writing new restriction analysis classes. These will eventually replace the long serving Bio::Tools::RestrictionEnzyme by Steve Chervitz. The first working versions are in CVS. A UML graph shows the class relationships. A more verbose overview is below. (more...)

Bioperl 1.2.2 released

Tuesday, July 8th, 2003

This is a bug fix release from the stable branch. The Bioperl release 1.2.2 is available at http://www.bioperl.org/DIST/bioperl-1.2.2.tar.gz and is propagating around CPAN now. Bioperl-run is a collection of modules that wrap bioinformatics applications to allow running them from bioperl. The release cycle of bioperl-run follows the core. The latest bioperl-run release is therefore at: http://www.bioperl.org/DIST/bioperl-run-1.2.2.tar.gz ...

BOSC’2003 Pictures are online

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2003

Our "Bioinformatics Open Source Conference" was held in Brisbane, Australia in conjunction with the larger ISMB'2003 meeting. It was quite successful --- 96 attendees, wireless internet, BOF rooms and 30+ presentations over 2 days. Pictures are online here: http://gallery.open-bio.org/

Release candidate 1.2.2 available

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2003

A possible release candidate for BioPerl 1.2.2 is now available for download: http://bioperl.org/DIST/bioperl-1.2.2rc1.tar.gz Please download and give it a test. New aditions, features and fixes are in the "Changes" file.

BioPerl workshop materials online

Friday, June 27th, 2003

Heikki has converted some Bioperl workshop materials to a web slide show that is available here: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~lehvasla/bioperl/

The Open Biological Database Access (OBDA) introduction for BioPerl

Thursday, June 12th, 2003

Do you need to access sequences from multiple places? Would you like to easily retrieve your own local sequences from indexed flat files, all other sequences on species X from department wide raletional database and the rest from global internet servers? The Open Biological Database Access (OBDA) System was designed so that one could use ...

bioperl-run 1.2.0 released

Thursday, May 29th, 2003

Shawn Hoon announces the release of bioperl-run-1.2.0 which is an extention to the bioperl framework that contains modules that act as wrappers for common informatics applications. The full release announcement can be read here: http://bioperl.org/pipermail/bioperl-l/2003-May/012308.html

Avantgo-friendly channel for bioperl list

Wednesday, May 28th, 2003

Jonathan Epstein has a simple script and directions for browsing bioperl list traffic offline via a mobile device. The full post can be read online at: http://bioperl.org/pipermail/bioperl-l/2003-May/012287.html

AGP-bases DAS reference server available

Friday, May 23rd, 2003

Tony writes:  I have just checked in to the Bio::Das perl beta CVS repository ("Bio-Das2") a collection of modules that creates a minimal DAS reference server from a single AGP file (or a directory of one or more files). There is also a sample server script in the "eg" directory. Briefly, the server is started ...