We are pleased to announce the release of Biopython 1.41. Many improvements were made in Biopython during the eight months since the previous release, and the new release contains lots of bugfixes, improvements, new functionalities, and better documentation.

I am pleased to announce the 1.5.1 developer release of Bioperl.

Release Candidate 4 for bioperl 1.5.1 (Developer release) core, run, and ext packages is available. Several bug fixes went in last week so I’ve made what I hope to be the last release candidate before 1.5.1 goes out.

The 2005 Board of Directors meeting for the Open Bioinformatics Foundation was held on Thursday, June 24th 2005 in Detroit, MI USA at the site of the BOSC2005 meeting. This was a major meeting and represents the first attempt to build a governance platform for the organization as well as set up the mechanism for building a voting membership.

The backend MovableType software powering this site was upgraded and the backend storage was switched from berkelyDB to SQL. These preparations are being done to ease the transition of http://news.open-bio.org to a new server. The primary purpose of this news entry is to confirm that the posting system still works after the upgrade!

Venue: Renaissance Center in Detroit, on the first floor next to the Starbucks. Date: June 23, 2005, 16:15. Call to order: Board members present: Chris, Hilmar, Ewan, Andrew Others: Jason Stajich Chris / Treasurer’s Report Review of the accounts / passing the statements around Summary of response to the fraud attempt Request to activate the debit card. Granted.

The BOSC 2005 schedule has been posted. Lightning talks are still being accepted.

A PopGen HOWTO added to the website for using the population genetics modules in Bioperl. The PAML HOWTO is in-process of being updated to describe the new functionalilty.

We are pleased to announce the release of Biopython 1.40 beta. It has been nine months since the last official release (1.30), and there are numerous changes, bugfixes, enhancements, goodies and new contributors.

Brian Osborne and James Thompson have written a Bioperl HOWTO for beginners, for those who are interested in learning about Bioperl but have done very little programmming. Topics include creating a Sequence object, I/O and files, retrieving from Genbank, and using the Sequence object. All HOWTOs are published on the bioperl website.

BOSC 2005 website /bosc/ The 6th annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC'2005) is organized by the not-for-profit Open Bioinformatics Foundation. The meeting will take place June 23-24, 2005 in Detroit, Michigan, USA, and is one of several Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings occurring in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology.