Archive for the ‘OBF’ Category
Thursday, September 24th, 2009
The release of Biopython 1.52 earlier this week marked the end of an era, it was our last release using CVS for source code control.
As of now, Biopython is using a git repository, hosted on github.com who kindly provide git hosting for open source projects free of charge. The BioRuby ...
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
As per Peter's recent post we are using this space to show of a couple of the new features in Biopython 1.52 before it is released. In this post we'll look at the new convert() function that both Bio.SeqIO and Bio.AlignIO will get in Biopython 1.52.
No one has ever complained ...
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Monday, August 17th, 2009
We are pleased to announce the release of Biopython 1.51.This new stable release enhances version 1.50 (released in April) by extending the functionality of existing modules, adding a set of application wrappers for popular alignment programs and fixing a number of minor bugs.
In particular, the SeqIO module ...
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Sunday, June 21st, 2009
Constructing complicated NCBI Entrez searches can be tricky, but it turns out one of the Entrez Programming Utilities called Entrez EInfo can help.
For example, suppose you want to search for mitochondrial genomes from a given taxa - either just in the Entrez web interface, for use in a script with ...
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Monday, June 1st, 2009
The BOSC 2009 schedule of speakers with links to abstracts has been posted at http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2009_Schedule.
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Sunday, May 17th, 2009
BOSC Update: Ruttenberg, Hanmer confirmed as Keynotes, Early Registration Deadline Friday: Alan Ruttenberg of Sc.. http://tinyurl.com/p3wy9a #
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Sunday, May 10th, 2009
Dropping Python 2.3 Support: As announced here, any last minute requests to postpone dropping support for Python.. http://tinyurl.com/daypom #
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Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
As announced here, any last minute requests to postpone dropping support for Python 2.3 from the next release of Biopython must be posted to the main Biopython mailing list no later than Friday, May 8.
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Sunday, May 3rd, 2009
Biopython projects chosen for Google Summer of Code: Congratulations to Nick Matzke and Eric Talevich who have h.. http://tinyurl.com/cx9f34 #
Introducing (and expanding) the Biopython Cookbook: Hi all,
You may have noticed we’re trying out using th.. http://tinyurl.com/c7ef6h #
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Hi all,
You may have noticed we're trying out using the wiki for Biopython cookbook entries. It's a new idea so at the moment there are only a few 'recipes' on offer. If you have some tricks you find yourself using time and again to solve a problem why not ...
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