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Poster session at GCCBOSC2018

OBF Treasurer Heather Wiencko introducing OBF at BOSC 2024

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Ruth Nanjala, an OBF Travel Award winner, by her poster

Next BioPerl Release

 Posted on August 10, 2006  |  cjfields

We are currently planning a timetable for the next few Bioperl releases, including the next developer release (v1.5.2), the next stable release (1.6) and beyond. Users are welcome to add requests (within reason!), donate code, etc. Lots of changes in store!

The release schedule can be found here. In order to add comments, you will be required to sign up for an account on the BioPerl wiki.

Biopython release 1.42

 Posted on July 16, 2006  |  mdehoon

Dear biopythoneers, We are pleased to announce the release of Biopython 1.42. This release includes a brand-new Genbank parser in Bio.GenBank by Peter Cock, numerous updates to Bio.Nexus by Frank Kauff and to Bio.Geo by Peter, lots of bug fixes by scores of contributors through BugZilla, and Bio.Cluster became object-oriented. Source distributions and Windows installers are available from our spiffy new Wiki-based website at http://biopython.org. My thanks to all code contributors who made this new release possible. [Read More]

Updated PDoc software

 Posted on June 26, 2006  |  stajich

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. [Read More]

Modware: a BioPerl based API for Chado

 Posted on May 18, 2006  |  just

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. [Read More]

ListSummaries for April 26-May 9

 Posted on May 10, 2006  |  cjfields

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

 Posted on May 2, 2006  |  mauricio

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.