[Biojava-l] biojava 1.6 released

[Andreas Prlic]

Biojava 1.6 has been released and is available from http:// 
biojava.org/wiki/BioJava:Download

Biojava 1.6 offers more functionality and stability over the previous  
official releases. BioJava now depends on Java 1.5+. We highly  
recommend you to upgrade as soon as possible.

In detail, the phylo package org.biojavax.bio.phylo was improved and  
expanded by our GSOC'07 student Boh-Yun Lee. It now contains fully- 
functional Nexus and Phylip parsers, and tools for calculating UPGMA  
and Neighbour Joining, Jukes-Kantor and Kimura Two Parameter, and MP.  
It uses JGraphT to represent parsed trees.

The PDB file parser was improved by Jules Jacobsen for better dealing  
with PDB header records. Andreas Draeger provided several patches for  
improving the Genetic Algorithm modules. Additionally this release  
contains numerous bug fixes and documentation improvements.

Thanks to the entire biojava community for making this possible!

Happy Biojava-ing,

Andreas

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Andreas Prlic      Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
                               Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK
                               +44 (0) 1223 49 6891

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