Biopython 1.23 Release

Jeff announces a new release of Biopython:

Biopython 1.23 is now available from the website at: http://www.biopython.org/

This is mostly a maintenance release, which fixes some problems in the installation. You do not need to update from 1.22 unless you are using the Bio.Cluster, Bio.KDTree, or Bio.PDB.mmCIF packages. The changes made in this release are: Fixed distribution of files in Bio/Cluster Now distributing Bio/KDTree/_KDTree.swig.C minor updates in installation code added mmCIF support for PDB files

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Release Announcement: Bioperl-Microarray 0.1

The Bioperl developers are pleased to announce a 0.1 release of bioperl-microarray, a Bioperl extension package dedicated to manipulation of microarray data.

The package is implemented using IO conventions Bioperl developers should already be familiar with. Data types currently supported are:

Affymetrix GeneChip CEL files (read and write) Affymetrix GeneChip CDF files (read) Affymetrix GeneChip Microarray Suite 5.0 normalized files (read) Affymetrix GeneChip dChip normalized files (read)

Data types for which support is planned in a 0.2 release include:

Bio::MAGE objects and MAGE-ML (read and write) Affymetrix SNPChip genotype files (read) GenePix GPR files (read)

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Bioperl 1.2.3 Released

Bioperl 1.2.3

On behalf of the Bioperl developers, we are pleased to announce the release of Bioperl 1.2.3. This is the set of Core libraries which constitutes Bioperl and covers areas like Sequence file parsing, Sequence Feature representations, Database access to flatfile web-based sequence databases, Alignment parsing and manipulation, parsing of and data representation of output from a majority of standard bioinformatics tools, and many more features.

This release constitutes several major bugfixes from the 1.2.2 release earlier this summer and provides some new minor functionality improvements. This release is intended to be compatible with code which has been programmed using the API in the 1.2.x series of releases.

The release is available as always from http://bioperl.org/DIST/.

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Server downtime announcement

Hi Everyone,

Apologies for the mass cross-posting but this email is about server and IP changes that will affect all of our projects and servers.

Simply put – Wyeth, the company that provides us with our hosting and wonderful T3 connection to the internet is cutting their internet connection circuits over from one ISP to a different Tier 1 internet backbone.

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BioPython 1.2.0 released

Available now at http://biopython.org/download/

Changes include: added Andrew Dalke’s EUtils library added Michiel de Hoon’s gene expression analysis package updates to setup code, now smarter about dependencies updates to test suite, now smarter about code that is imported Michael Hoffman’s fixes to DocSQL syntax fixes in triemodule.c to compile on SGI, Python 2.1 compatible updates in NCBIStandalone, short query error Sebastian Bassi submitted code to calculate LCC complexity Greg Kettler’s NCBIStandalone fix for long query lengths slew of miscellaneous fixes from George Paci miscellaneous cleanups and updates from Andreas Kuntzagk Peter Bienstman’s fixes to Genbank code – now parses whole database Kayte Lindner’s LocusLink package miscellaneous speedups and code cleanup in ParserSupport by Brad Chapman miscellaneous BLAST fixes and updates Iddo added new code to parse BLAST table output format Karl Diedrich’s patch to read T_Coffee files Larry Heisler’s fix for primer3 output Bio.Medline now uses proper iterator objects copen now handles SIGTERM correctly small bugfixes and updates in Thomas Hamelryck’s PDB package bugfixes and updates to SeqIO.FASTA reader updates to Registry system, conforms to 2003 hackathon OBDA spec Yu Huang patch to support tblastn in wublast expression

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new restriction analysis classes

Rob Edwards and Heikki Lehvaslaiho have been writing new restriction analysis classes. These will eventually replace the long serving Bio::Tools::RestrictionEnzyme by Steve Chervitz. The first working versions are in CVS.

A UML graph shows the class relationships. A more verbose overview is below.

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Bioperl 1.2.2 released

This is a bug fix release from the stable branch.

The Bioperl release 1.2.2 is available at http://www.bioperl.org/DIST/bioperl-1.2.2.tar.gz and is propagating around CPAN now.

Bioperl-run is a collection of modules that wrap bioinformatics applications to allow running them from bioperl. The release cycle of bioperl-run follows the core. The latest bioperl-run release is therefore at: http://www.bioperl.org/DIST/bioperl-run-1.2.2.tar.gz

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