BioRuby 1.4.3 released

August 21st, 2012 by

We are pleased to announce the release of BioRuby 1.4.3. This new release fixes bugs existed in 1.4.2 and improves […]

Travis-CI for Testing

July 30th, 2012 by

BioRuby, Biopython and BioPerl are now using Travis-CI.org, a hosted continuous integration service for the open source community, to run their unit tests automatically whenever their GitHub repositories are updated.

Biopython 1.60 released

June 25th, 2012 by

Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.60 are now available from the downloads page on the Biopython website and […]

Cross-links in GenomeDiagram

March 2nd, 2012 by

I’ve just finished writing up an example for the Biopython Tutorial of the new GenomeDiagram functionality added in Biopython 1.59. […]

Biopython 1.59 released

February 24th, 2012 by

Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.59 are now available from the downloads page on the Biopython website and from the Python Package Index (PyPI).

Chromosome Diagrams in Biopython

October 28th, 2011 by

One of the new things coming in Biopython 1.59 is improved chromosome diagrams, something you may have seen via Twitter. […]

BioRuby 1.4.2 released

August 26th, 2011 by

We are pleased to announce the release of BioRuby 1.4.2. This new release fixes bugs existed in 1.4.1 and adds […]

Biopython 1.58 released

August 18th, 2011 by

Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.58 are available from the downloads page on the Biopython website and from […]

Biopython 1.57 released

April 2nd, 2011 by

The Biopython community is pleased to announce the release of Biopython 1.57. Source distributions and Windows installers are available from […]

OBF and Google Summer of Code 2011

March 18th, 2011 by

Google announced today the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) has been accepted as a mentoring organization for the 2011 Google Summer of Code!

OBF Redmine server now available

March 17th, 2011 by

The OBF now has a sparkly new Redmine instance running on Amazon EC2, thanks to efforts from Chris Dagdigian and Jason […]

Biopython 1.56 released

November 26th, 2010 by

The Biopython team is pleased to release Biopython 1.56, almost exactly three months after our last stable release (Biopython 1.55). […]

Biopython dropping Python 2.4 Support?

November 18th, 2010 by

The forthcoming Biopython 1.56 release is planned to be our last release to support Python 2.4. If you would be negatively affected us dropping support for Python 2.4, please let us know as soon as possible.

BioRuby 1.4.1 released

October 22nd, 2010 by

We are pleased to announce the release of BioRuby 1.4.1. This new release fixes bugs existed in 1.4.0 and new […]

Biopython 1.55 released

August 31st, 2010 by

The Biopython team is proud to announce Biopython 1.55, a new stable release, about three months after our last stable […]

BioRuby paper published

August 26th, 2010 by

After 10 years of development, the BioRuby paper is finally published in the Bioinformatics journal.  The article is open access, […]

Biopython 1.55 beta released

August 18th, 2010 by

We’ve just released a beta of Biopython 1.55 for user testing. Since Biopython 1.54 was released three months ago, we’ve […]

Biopython 1.54 released

May 20th, 2010 by

The Biopython team is proud to announce Biopython 1.54, a new stable release of the Biopython library. Biopython 1.54 comes […]