The newest summary of the BioPerl mailing lists has been posted to the wiki: April 12-25 Post gripes, harrassments, and faint praises at the regular places.

The first of a biweekly summary of BioPerl mailing list summaries has been posted to the wiki: April 1-11 These will likely be archived on the wiki but may be moved to a more suitable location in the future (maybe to this blog?).

I plan on starting a weekly, possibly biweekly, summary of mailing list traffic. These will be somewhat in the same vein as the Perl5 or Perl6 summaries and will be posted on the blog here and sent to the bioperl-l mail list.

GMANE has been tracking BioPerl traffic for a few years now. You can see the page here There are several interfaces there including threaded and BLOG-like. Those interested in tracking the mailing list in RSS readers should grab this link. There is also a search option for the archives.

The CVS repository is migrating from ‘pub’ to a new host called ‘dev’ and requires us to re-issue accounts. This will be a good opportunity to verify email addresses and remove unused accounts. You should have received an email from Chris D requesting specific information and you will get a new password in the response. If not you will need to send a note to the helpdesk at support_AT_open-bio.org. The changover will happen around March 25th.

We are moving developer repository to a new server which will require you to get a new developer account. To fix your local repository you should be able to run this on your local repository: $ find bioperl -name 'Root' | xargs perl -i.backup -p -e 's/pub.open/dev.open/' or just check out a clean version.

The BOSC 2002 pictures have been migrated to the O|B|F gallery site hackathon2002. Thanks to Nat Torkington and his continual hosting of the original site.

Installation instructions for Bioperl have been added to the main Bioperl website. They have been updated with links and tags for the wiki. Currently, both pages are accessible through links from Getting Bioperl and Installing Bioperl; these links will be subject to change. Please correct lins/tags/information as necessary.

Wordpress 2.0.1 installed. Presumably no major differences to be seen but some bug fixes installed. A Wiki spam filter was installed, we’ll see how well it performs but trying to cut down on spammers. We also will try and setup a RSS feed on the wiki main page so that news feeds from this site (and perhaps other open-bio sites) will be scrolled on the main BioPerl website.

Some discussion about changing how the RemoteBlast module behaves. If you have feedback respond to Roger’s post.

Instructions on how to install BioPerl on Mac OS X have been added to the Wiki, specifically at the Getting Bioperl section. Thanks to Koen van der Drift for contributing with this info. We continue to encourage people who is taking care of creating packages for other platforms (specific Linux distributions, Windows, etc.) to put in the wiki the necessary documentation about installing BioPerl and Perl modules in your favorite OS/distributions.