Agenda Venue: to be held by conference call on April 9, 2013, 1.30pm EDT (17:30 UTC)  Dial-in Number: 1-605-475-5950 (Midwest)

Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.63 are now available from the downloads page on the official Biopython website and ( soon ) from the Python Package Index (PyPI). The current version removed the requirement of the 2to3 library. This was made possible by dropping Python 2.5 (and Jython 2.5). This release of Biopython supports Python 2.6 and

Note : I’m reposting here the original announcement from Florent Angly on the BioPerl mail list. Dear all, Some time ago, I announced that I was working on a set of BioPerl modules collectively forming the Bio-Community distribution.

Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.63 beta are now available from the downloads page on the official Biopython website.

UPDATE: As a bit of time has passed since we originally intended to make a new release, I forgot that (in that time period) Carnë Draug had released a split-out version of Bio::Biblio to CPAN this past March. Unfortunately that release (v1.7) appears to have version collisions with this one (v.1.6.910); therefore I’m packaging a new point release ( v1.6.920 ) that removes Bio::Biblio to prevent this.

Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.62 are now available from the downloads page on the official Biopython website and ( soon ) from the Python Package Index (PyPI). Python support This is our first release of Biopython which officially supports Python 3 . Specifically, this is supported under Python 3.3. Older versions of Python 3 may still work albeit with

Hello from Berlin, where the pre-BOSC informal CodeFest 2013 meeting is already underway. We’re looking forward to seeing even more of you on Friday and Saturday for BOSC 2013.

We are pleased to announce the release of BioRuby 1.4.3.0001. This new release fixes the following bugs. “gem install bio” failed with Ruby 2.0 or later versions. lib/bio/db/gff.rb script encoding issue Bio::Blast::Default::Report parse error when subject sequence contains spaces. For more information, see RELEASE_NOTES.rdoc and ChangeLog.

Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.61 are now available from the downloads page on the Biopython website and from the Python Package Index (PyPI). The updated Biopython Tutorial and Cookbook is online ( PDF). Platforms/Deployment We currently support Python 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7 and also test under Python 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 (including modules using NumPy), and Jython 2.5 and PyPy 1.9 (Jython and PyPy do not

Agenda Old business Sep 2012 BoD meeting minutes New business Election of new Board members. Nominated candidate is Chris Fields.

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) will be holding a public Board of Directors meeting on Tuesday, 13 Nov, 2012, at 11.30am EST (8.30am PST, 17:30 CET, 16:30 UTC/GMT). The meeting will be held online or over conference call.