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 without contributing code if you aren’t comfortable with that type of commitment.

I updated the Trees HowTo with some code demonstrating how to automatically generate postscript trees from newick or nexus tree files. This uses the Bio::Tree::Draw::Cladogram module that will draw Phylograms or Cladograms. With a few unix tools ( eps2png and epstopdf [part of TeX]) you can generate png and pdf files automatically making this an easy addition to phylogenetic pipelines that generate webpages as well as stand alone applications.

Updated mediawiki to 1.10 Did a bulk creation of a number of modules wiki pages for modules that had been previously created but not added to the wiki. Added them with default module templates.

We are pleased to announce the release of Biopython 1.43. This release includes a brand-new set of parsers in Bio.SeqIO by Peter Cock for reading biological sequence files in various formats, an updated Blast XML parser in Bio.Blast.NCBIXML, a new UniGene flat-file parser by Sean Davis, and numerous improvements and bug fixes in Bio.PDB, Bio.SwissProt, Bio.Nexus, BioSQL, and others. Believe it or not, even the documentation was updated.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.