Archive for the ‘OBF’ Category
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Abstract submissions for the 11th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2010) are now open.
At-a-glance
BOSC is an ISMB 2010 Special Interest Group (SIG)
Date: July 9-10, 2010
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
BOSC 2010 web site: http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2010
Abstract submission via Open Conference System site: http://events.open-bio.org/BOSC2010/openconf.php
E-mail: bosc@open-bio.org
Bosc-announce list: http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/bosc-announce
Important Dates
April 15: Abstract deadline
May 5: Notification ...
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Monday, January 18th, 2010
BioPerl developers and users attended the BioPerl satellite meeting on January 13th, just prior to the GMOD Meeting. Several items were covered on the agenda:
In order to start addressing whole genome data with more lightweight objects, we are planning on setting up a lightweight Bio::SeqI object that has a flexible DB ...
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Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
We are pleased to announce the release of BioRuby 1.4.0. This new release contains many new features, in addition to bug fixes and improvements.
PhyloXML support: Support for reading and writing PhyloXML file format is added, developed by Diana Jaunzeikare, mentored by Christian M Zmasek and co-mentors, supported by Google Summer ...
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Friday, December 18th, 2009
BOSC 2010 is currently in the planning stages. It will be held for 2 days in conjunction with the 18th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2010) in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The dates of BOSC 2010 are July 9-10; the main ISMB Conference runs July 11-13, ...
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
I'm delighted to announce an open access publication in Nucleic Acids Research describing the FASTQ file format based on the conventions agreed by the OBF projects:
The Sanger FASTQ file format for sequences with quality scores, and the Solexa/Illumina FASTQ variants
Peter J. A. Cock (Biopython), Christopher J. Fields (BioPerl), Naohisa Goto ...
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Monday, December 14th, 2009
The official 2009 Board of Directors meeting is taking place today, Monday Dec 14, at 4pm EST (21:00 UTC) via teleconference. If you are an O|B|F member, you will have received the announcement and dial-in information earlier.
O|B|F Board of Director meetings are public - anyone interested in O|B|F business can ...
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Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
Two of the core BioPerl developers, Jason Stajich and Chris Fields, were interviewed by FLOSS Weekly. The interview is now available as an MP3 on the FLOSS Weekly website; several streaming versions (including podcast) are also available.
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Saturday, October 10th, 2009
BioPerl 1.6.1 is now available for ActivePerl as a PPM, instructions for downloading can be found on the BioPerl wiki. This has been tested only for ActivePerl 5.10 and above, so any feedback with older versions of BioPerl would be greatly appreciated.
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Thursday, October 1st, 2009
Running a bit late on this, so just a quick note that the first alphas for BioPerl-Run, BioPerl-DB, and BioPerl-Network have been uploaded to CPAN:
BioPerl-Run
BioPerl-DB
BioPerl-Network
They can also be downloaded from the BioPerl website:
http://bioperl.org/DIST/RC/
This is the first run where we've switched to a regular Module::Build installation, so expect some initial bumps! ...
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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of BioPerl 1.6.1, the latest release of BioPerl's core code. You can grab it here:
Via CPAN:
http://search.cpan.org/~cjfields/BioPerl-1.6.1/
Via the BioPerl website:
http://bioperl.org/DIST/BioPerl-1.6.1.tar.bz2
http://bioperl.org/DIST/BioPerl-1.6.1.tar.gz
http://bioperl.org/DIST/BioPerl-1.6.1.zip
The PPM for Windows should also finally be available this week, ActivePerl problems permitting (we will post more information when it ...
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