BioRuby 1.5.1 released

Posted on September 7, 2016 by Naohisa Goto

We are pleased to announce the release of BioRuby 1.5.1.

In this new release, NCBI Entrez web client classes, Bio::NCBI::REST and Bio::PubMed, are changed to use HTTPS instead of HTTP, to prepare NCBI website transitioning to HTTPS.

For more information, see RELEASE_NOTES.rdoc and ChangeLog.

The archive is available for download from the following links.

• Tar.gz file: http://bioruby.org/archive/bioruby-1.5.1.tar.gz
• Gem file: https://rubygems.org/gems/bio or http://bioruby.org/archive/gems/bio-1.5.1.gem

You can easily install by using RubyGems. First, check the
version number by using search command:

% gem search --remote bio

and find “bio (1.5.1)” in the list. Then,

% sudo gem install bio

Note that BioRuby 1.5.X will be the final release version that supports Ruby 1.8.

Because this release is a minor version up, only few changes picked from the git head are included.

Acknowledgments: Thanks to Dr. Mark Johnson about information of the NCBI website change.

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