[Biojava-l] BioJava 3.0.8 released

[Andreas Prlic]

== BioJava 3.0.8 released ==

BioJava 3.0.8 was released on March 25th 2014 and is available from
http://biojava.org/wiki/BioJava:Download as well as from the
BioJava maven repository at http://www.biojava.org/download/maven/

This release would not have been possible without contributions from
13 developers, thanks to all for their support!

BioJava 3.0.8 includes a lot of new features as well as numerous bug fixes
and improvements.

New Features:

 - new Genbank writer
 - new parser for Karyotype file from UCSC
 - new parser for Gene locations from UCSC
 - new parser for Gene names file from genenames.org
 - new module for Cox regression code for survival analysis
 - new calculation of accessible surface area (ASA)
 - new module for parsing .OBO files (ontologies)
 - improved representation of SCOP and Berkeley-SCOP classifications

For a detailed comparison see here:
https://github.com/biojava/biojava/compare/biojava-3.0.7...biojava-3.0.8

For the next release we are planning some refactoring and removal of code
that has been deprecated for a long time. As such the next release will be
named 3.1.0.

About BioJava:

BioJava is a mature open-source project that provides a framework for
processing of biological data. BioJava contains powerful analysis and
statistical routines, tools for parsing common file formats, and
packages for manipulating sequences and 3D structures. It enables
rapid bioinformatics application development in the Java programming
language.

Happy BioJava-ing,

Andreas