Updated PDoc software

Raphaël Leplae has updated the Pdoc software to have an improved stylesheet and fix several bugs including problems rendering Bio::DB::Fasta. Thanks a lot Raphaël and Patrick Meidl for getting the bugs reported and fixed for this nice POD to HTML converter.

You can see the Pdoc for Bioperl packages in action at the doc.bioperl.org site. See the bottom links which are for live code, the frozen version for releases remains, well, frozen.

Modware: a BioPerl based API for Chado

We are announcing a new Sourceforge Project called Modware. It is an object-oriented API written in Perl that creates BioPerl object representations of biological features stored in a Chado database. It basically creates a Bio::Seq object for chromosomes in Chado and creates Bio::SeqFeature::Gene objects for protein coding transcripts stored in Chado. Things like contigs are represented as Bio::SeqFeature::Generic objects. We also provide many methods for manipulating these objects once they are in memory.

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ListSummaries for April 26-May 9

ListSummaries for April 26-May 9 are up at the usual place:

http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Mailing_list_summaries

Direct link:

http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/ListSummary:April_26-May_9%2C2006

It’s a bit of a hurried one so don’t be surprised to find a few spelling errors here and there. I’m getting ready for a conference in a couple weeks so I may be off the radar a bit here and there. The next ListSummary won’t be posted until May 26. Enjoy!

BioPerl-run in FreeBSD

It’s my great pleasure to announce the availability of the BioPerl-run packages (stable & developer releases) for the FreeBSD operating system.

For instructions on how to install BioPerl ports in FreeBSD, please take a look into the Getting Bioperl section of the BioPerl Wiki.

RSS feeds

I’ve added a page about RSS feeds in BioPerl. These include links to CVS commits as a RSS feed. This a bit of a hack using cvs2rss and cvs2cl and I have hardcoded it to show the last 30 commits only.

In addition RSS news is now embedded on the main BioPerl and Tracking CVS commits webpages to make for better interlinking between the news and wiki site ( you might even be reading this there).

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