BioJava 1.3 Released

Thomas Down writes:

After a long series of pre-releases (and many bug fixes), I’ve just finished building BioJava 1.30. Source, binaries, and javadocs can all be found at:

http://www.biojava.org/download/

As with the pre-releases, separate binaries are available for java platform releases 1.3 and 1.4. The 1.4 releases include some extra features which depend on jdk1.4 extensions such as the java.nio package.

Highlights of this release include:

- Packed storage of sequence data in memory

- Better support for the OBDA database access standards

- Improvements to the parsers for output from tools like blast and fasta.

- Many enhancements to the FeatureFilter system.

Please check out the javadocs for information on these and other new features.

I’d also like to take this opportunity to recomment the excellent BioJava in Anger website, which is now hosted on biojava.org:

http://www.biojava.org/docs/bj_in_anger/index.htm

Thanks to everyone who has made this release possible:

Aroul Ramadass Brian Gilman Brian King Cambridge Antibody Technology (CAT) David Allen David H. Klatte, Ph.D. David Huen David Waring Ewan Birney Francois Pepin Gerald Loeffler Greg Cox Hanning Ni Jason Stajich Kalle Naslund Keith James Kim Rutherford Lachlan Coin Laurent Jourdren Leen Ammeraal Lei Lai Mark Schreiber Martin Senger Matthew Pocock Mayo Foundation Michael Heuer Michael Jones Moses Hohman Nimesh Singh Paul Seed Rhett Sutphin Robin Emig Ron Kuhn Russell Smithies Samiul Hasan Thad Welch Thomas Down

I hope you all find it useful,

Thomas.