Jeff announces a new release of Biopython: Biopython 1.23 is now available from the website at: http://www.biopython.org/ This is mostly a maintenance release, which fixes some problems in the installation. You do not need to update from 1.22 unless you are using the Bio.Cluster, Bio.KDTree, or Bio.PDB.mmCIF packages.

I posted the slides for the Bioperl-db/BioSQL talk I gave at BOSC03.

The Bioperl developers are pleased to announce a 0.1 release of bioperl-microarray, a Bioperl extension package dedicated to manipulation of microarray data. The package is implemented using IO conventions Bioperl developers should already be familiar with.

Bioperl 1.2.3 On behalf of the Bioperl developers, we are pleased to announce the release of Bioperl 1.2.3. This is the set of Core libraries which constitutes Bioperl and covers areas like Sequence file parsing, Sequence Feature representations, Database access to flatfile web-based sequence databases, Alignment parsing and manipulation, parsing of and data representation of output from a majority of standard bioinformatics tools, and many

Hi Everyone, Apologies for the mass cross-posting but this email is about server and IP changes that will affect all of our projects and servers. Simply put – Wyeth, the company that provides us with our hosting and wonderful T3 connection to the internet is cutting their internet connection circuits over from one ISP to a different Tier 1 internet backbone.

Jason has summarized a significant amount of work he has done on the CVS tree. Major work done on Bio::PopGen, Bio::Matrix and bug fixes to Bio::Tree and Bio::SeqIO.

Available now at http://biopython.org/download/ Changes include: added Andrew Dalke’s EUtils library added Michiel de Hoon’s gene expression analysis package updates to setup code, now smarter about dependencies updates to test suite, now smarter about code that is imported Michael Hoffman’s fixes to DocSQL syntax fixes in triemodule.c to compile on SGI, Python 2.1 compatible updates in NCBIStandalone, short query error Sebastian Bassi

The “Biojava in Anger: A Tutorial and Recipe Book for Those in a Hurry” posted online at http://www.biojava.org/docs/bj_in_anger/index.htm has been translated into French and Japanese

Rob Edwards and Heikki Lehvaslaiho have been writing new restriction analysis classes. These will eventually replace the long serving Bio::Tools::RestrictionEnzyme by Steve Chervitz. The first working versions are in CVS. A UML graph shows the class relationships. A more verbose overview is below. Bio::Restriction::Enzyme class knows (almost) everything there to know about restriction enzymes.

This is a bug fix release from the stable branch. The Bioperl release 1.2.2 is available at http://www.bioperl.org/DIST/bioperl-1.2.2.tar.gz and is propagating around CPAN now. Bioperl-run is a collection of modules that wrap bioinformatics applications to allow running them from bioperl. The release cycle of bioperl-run follows the core.

Our “Bioinformatics Open Source Conference” was held in Brisbane, Australia in conjunction with the larger ISMB'2003 meeting. It was quite successful — 96 attendees, wireless internet, BOF rooms and 30+ presentations over 2 days.