Site software updated

I’ve updated the wordpress install to 2.0 which has a lot more features and seems to be better setup for permissions and what not.

I also upgraded the wiki to 1.5.5 to deal with some potential security holes with WMF files.

I also changed the permalink structure so that the links are informative by date and post-slug. I like this much more.

Developer Release in FreeBSD

The Developer Release (1.5.1) of BioPerl has been brought back into the FreeBSD Ports Collection. For instructions on how to install it, please take a look into the Getting Bioperl section of the BioPerl Wiki.

We encourage people who is taking care of creating packages for other platforms (specific Linux distributions, Mac OS, Windows, etc.) to put in the wiki the necessary documentation about getting and installing BioPerl releases in your favorite OS/distributions.

media wiki upgraded

Upgraded to mediawiki 1.5.2 – all seems to be working, but do notify us if it isn’t.

no more index.php

index.php is no longer part of the wiki URL. Yah! So

http://bioperl.open-bio.org/wiki/Project_priority_list

instead of

http://bioperl.open-bio.org/wiki/index.php/Project_priority_list

I also installed the interwiki table so that inter-wiki linking is much easier. See this page: http://bioperl.open-bio.org/wiki/Special:Interwiki For example to link to wikipedia you simply need to use the ‘‘‘wp’’’ prefix. For example [[wp:Bioinformatics]] or else the wikiomics site [[wikiomics:BLAST]].

sort order for Bio::Tree::Node each_Descendent

I’ve updated the code for Bio::Tree::Node so that each_Descendent can return the nodes in alphabetical order. This is achieved by pasing in the string ‘alpha’ (for alphabetical) or ‘revalpha’ (for reverse alphabetical). For internal nodes, they are sorted in order of the min or max (alphabetically) node in the sub-clade.

In addition, you can request the order of writing nodes by Bio::TreeIO::newick by passing in the -order_by flag which can be ‘alpha’, ‘revalpha’, ‘height’, or ‘creation’.

So you can use it like

[Read More]

FAQ updated

The Frequently Asked Questions have been entered into the Wiki and is available.

Seen on the road

After halloween party at our house from a few years ago there was a little more public direction on who to ask for Bioperl help…

Getting BlastXML using RemoteBlast

According to NCBI - BlastXML (and ASN.1) is the only guaranteed always parseable report format that is provided by their web CGI script. Here is some code to specify how the data should be requested (and perhaps this will become the default). [Read More]