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.

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.

Upgraded MW install for some bugfixes and security fixes.

Bioperl Network package documentation added to the Pdoc site and is automaticly updated daily.

Upgraded BioPerl mediawiki to 1.6.6.

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.