Archive for the ‘Development’ Category
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
To date, Biopython releases have relied on the original numerical python library, Numeric (used in python with "import Numeric"). In the next release we will at last be moving to its successor, NumPy (used in python with "import numpy").
This transition is already under way in the Biopython source code repository. ...
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Monday, July 9th, 2007
So Mailing list summaries have stopped because we need someone else to help post these summaries. Not a light job unfortunately. If you are interested, please post to the mailing list or contact Jason, Sendu, or Chris for more details. This is one way you can help BioPerl ...
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Wednesday, December 6th, 2006
I'm proud to announce the final release of Bioperl 1.5.2. Full details are available at http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Release_1.5.2
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Monday, November 27th, 2006
Sendu has posted 1.5.2 RC5. There may be a few more kinks to work out, so try this release and report if there are problems with the tests.
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Thursday, November 9th, 2006
Sendu has announced that Release Candidate 3 is available for download and testing. This may be the last RC before the 1.5.2 release so give it a whirl and speak up with any problems or concerns.
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Thursday, November 9th, 2006
Bioperl wiki is now running Mediawiki 1.8.2.
nothing too different under the hood at this point, the mediawiki people probably have more to say in the release-notes.
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Thursday, August 10th, 2006
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. ...
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Thursday, May 18th, 2006
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 ...
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Sunday, May 14th, 2006
I'm glad to announce the availability of the Deobfuscator interface at the BioPerl website. You can use it at the following URL:
http://bioperl.org/cgi-bin/deob_interface.cgi
Many thanks to Laura Kavanaugh and David Messina for this great contribution to the BioPerl project!
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Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
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 ...
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