Category Archives: Code

BioRuby 1.5.0 released

Posted on July 2, 2015 by Naohisa Goto

We are pleased to announce the release of BioRuby 1.5.0. This new release includes support of recent Ruby versions (Ruby 2.0.0, 2.1 and 2.2),  improvement of codes, and bug fixes. Here is a brief summary of changes. Ruby 2.0.0, 2.1, … Continue reading →

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Biopython 1.65 released

Posted on December 17, 2014 by Peter

Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.65 are now available. The most visible change is that the Biopython sequence objects now use string comparison, rather than Python’s object comparison. Continue reading →

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Biopython 1.64 released

Posted on May 29, 2014 by Tiago Antao

Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.64 are now available from the downloads page on the official Biopython website and from the Python Package Index (PyPI). This release of Biopython supports Python 2.6 and 2.7, 3.3 and also the new 3.4 version. It is also tested on PyPy 2.0 … Continue reading →

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OBF Google Summer of Code students 2014

Posted on April 26, 2014 by Eric Talevich

I’m pleased to announce the acceptance of OBF’s Google Summer of Code 2014 (GSoC) students. Continue reading →

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Catering at BOSC CodeFest 2014

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Peter

Bioinformatics Open Source Codefest, July 9 and 10th in Boston, now with sponsored food and drinks! Continue reading →

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OBF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2014

Posted on February 28, 2014 by Eric Talevich

Open Bio is officially a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2014! See Google’s official announcement for more details on what this means in general. What’s next? Google’s GSoC timeline lays out what we need to do as a … Continue reading →

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OBF applies for Google Summer of Code 2014

Posted on February 17, 2014 by Eric Talevich

On Friday, OBF applied to be a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2014. The core of our application to Google is our list of project ideas and our team of mentors supporting them. (We also have a separate … Continue reading →

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Call for Ideas for OBF’s 2014 Google Summer of Code

Posted on February 1, 2014 by Eric Talevich

Google Summer of Code is on again for 2014, and OBF is once again applying as a mentoring organization. Participating in GSoC as an organization is very competitive, and we will need your help in gathering a good set of … Continue reading →

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BioPerl release 1.6.923

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Chris Fields

The latest BioPerl release (v1.6.923) is now available on CPAN. This is a point release to address a few bugs, as well as push out the recent code updates that Francisco Ossandón has made to improve Windows support and improve … Continue reading →

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Biopython 1.63 released

Posted on December 6, 2013 by Tiago Antao

Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.63 are now available from the downloads page on the official Biopython website and (soon) from the Python Package Index (PyPI). The current version removed the requirement of the 2to3 library. This was made possible by dropping Python 2.5 (and Jython 2.5). This … Continue reading →

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