[Bioperl-l] bioperl-1.5.0 released
Jason Stajich
jason.stajich at duke.edu
Tue Jan 25 15:21:01 EST 2005
I just don't have the time to do this right now. It has not really been
tested for all tests passing.
if someone else wants to volunteer to work on validating it for release
that would be great.
-jason
On Jan 25, 2005, at 12:59 PM, Nathan Haigh wrote:
> Will there also be 1.5 releases for bioperl-run etc?
>
> Nathan
>
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>> Stajich
>> Sent: 25 January 2005 02:37
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>> Subject: [Bioperl-l] bioperl-1.5.0 released
>>
>> Bioperl 1.5.0 Developer's release is available for download.
>> ===============================================
>>
>> http://bioperl.org/DIST/bioperl-1.5.0.tar.bz2
>> 425ac55ecbb4339b7b532ba6d429bb40
>> http://bioperl.org/DIST/bioperl-1.5.0.tar.gz
>> 172472f0675de9a583432e21c9b1b5fc
>> http://bioperl.org/DIST/bioperl-1.5.0.zip
>> 3febcd2445a7393c65981a6f9f13a9ed
>>
>> We'll update the website to reflect this new release.
>>
>> The odd-numbered releases are called developer releases and are not
>> deposited on CPAN. Please note that the API in 1.5.0 may change
>> before
>> the 1.6.0 release. which will be consider a stable API. We may do
>> another developer release before 1.6.0 goes out.
>>
>> Lots of people have contributed to this release, I apologize for not
>> naming them all. I'll try to cover some: thanks to Aaron Mackey for
>> getting this release started, Brian Osborne for extensive
>> documentation
>> improvements, Nathan Haigh for volunteering to make a PPM of the
>> release and Barry Moore and Nathan answering many of the windows
>> related questions, Allen Day & Scott Cain & Steffen Grossmann for the
>> work on FeatureIO, GFF3, and SeqFeature::Annotated, Chris Mungall for
>> the work with Unflattener to merge GenBank annotations into GFF3
>> objects.
>>
>> Please see the AUTHORS file for a complete list of contributors.
>>
>> Jason Stajich on behalf of the Bioperl developers.
>>
>>
>> Here is the info from the Changes file.
>> 1.5 Developer release
>>
>> o Bio::Align::DNAStatistics and Bio::Align::ProteinStatistics
>> provide Jukes-Cantor and Kimura pairwise distance methods,
>> respectively.
>>
>> o Bio::AlignIO support for "po" format of POA, and "maf";
>> Bio::AlignIO::largemultifasta is a new alternative to
>> Bio::AlignIO::fasta for temporary file-based manipulation of
>> particularly large multiple sequence alignments.
>>
>> o Bio::Assembly::Singlet allows orphan, unassembled sequences to
>> be treated similarly as an assembled contig.
>>
>> o Bio::CodonUsage provides new rare_codon() and probable_codons()
>> methods for identifying particular codons that encode a given
>> amino acid.
>>
>> o Bio::Coordinate::Utils provides new from_align() method to
>> build
>> a Bio::Coordinate pair directly from a
>> Bio::Align::AlignI-conforming object.
>>
>> o Bio::DB::Biblio::eutils is a class for querying NCBI's Eutils.
>> Send a Pubmed, Pubmed Central, Entrez, or other query to NCBI's
>> web service using standard Pubmed query syntax, and retrieve
>> results as XML.
>>
>> o Bio::DB::GFF has various sundry bug fixes.
>>
>> o Bio::FeatureIO is a new SeqIO-style subsystem for
>> writing/reading genomic features to/from files. I/O classes
>> exist for BED, GTF (aka GFF v2.5), and GFF v3. Bio::FeatureIO
>> classes only read/write Bio::SeqFeature::Annotated objects.
>> Notably, the GFF v3 class requires features to be typed into
>> the
>> Sequence Ontology.
>>
>> o Bio::Graph namespace contains new modules for manipulation and
>> analysis of protein interaction graphs.
>>
>> o Bio::Graphics has many bug fixes and shiny new glyphs.
>>
>> o Bio::Index::Hmmer and Bio::Index::Qual provide multiple-file
>> indexing for HMMER reports and FASTA qual files, respectively.
>>
>> o Bio::Map::Clone, Bio::Map::Contig, and Bio::Map::FPCMarker are
>> new objects that can be placed within a
>> Bio::Map::MapI-compliant
>> genetic/physical map; Bio::Map::Physical provides a new
>> physical
>> map type; Bio::MapIO::fpc provides finger-printed clone mapping
>> import.
>>
>> o Bio::Matrix::PSM provide new support for postion-specific
>> (scoring) matrices (e.g. profiles, or "possums").
>>
>> o Bio::Ontology::Ontology and Bio::Ontology::Term objects can now
>> be instantiated without explicitly using Bio::OntologyIO. This
>> is possible through changes to Bio::Ontology::OntologyStore to
>> download ontology files from the web as necessary. Locations
>> of
>> ontology files are hard-coded into
>> Bio::Ontology::DocumentRegistry.
>>
>> o Bio::PopGen includes many new methods and data types for
>> population genetics analyses.
>>
>> o New constructor to Bio::Range, unions(). Given a list of
>> ranges, returns another list of "flattened" ranges --
>> overlapping ranges are merged into a single range with the
>> mininum and maximum coordinates of the entire overlapping
>> group.
>>
>> o Bio::Root::IO now supports -url, in addition to -file and -fh.
>> The new -url argument allows one to specify the network address
>> of a file for input. -url currently only works for GET
>> requests, and thus is read-only.
>>
>> o Bio::SearchIO::hmmer now returns individual Hit objects for
>> each
>> domain alignment (thus containing only one HSP); previously
>> separate alignments would be merged into one hit if the domain
>> involved in the alignments was the same, but this only worked
>> when the repeated domain occured without interruption by any
>> other domain, leading to a confusing mixture of Hit and HSP
>> objects.
>>
>> o Bio::Search::Result::ResultI-compliant report objects now
>> implement the "get_statistics" method to access
>> Bio::Search::StatisticsI objects that encapsulate any
>> statistical parameters associated with the search (e.g.
>> Karlin's
>> lambda for BLAST/FASTA).
>>
>> o Bio::Seq::LargeLocatableSeq combines the functionality already
>> found in Bio::Seq::LargeSeq and Bio::LocatableSeq.
>>
>> o Bio::SeqFeature::Annotated is a replacement for
>> Bio::SeqFeature::Generic. It breaks compliance with the
>> Bio::SeqFeatureI interface because the author was sick of
>> dealing with untyped annotation tags. All
>> Bio::SeqFeature::Annotated annotations are Bio::AnnotationI
>> compliant, and accessible through Bio::Annotation::Collection.
>>
>> o Bio::SeqFeature::Primer implements a Tm() method for primer
>> melting point predictions.
>>
>> o Bio::SeqIO now supports AGAVE, BSML (via SAX), CHAOS-XML,
>> InterProScan-XML, TIGR-XML, and NCBI TinySeq formats.
>>
>> o Bio::Taxonomy::Node now implements the methods necessary for
>> Bio::Species interoperability.
>>
>> o Bio::Tools::CodonTable has new reverse_translate_all() and
>> make_iupac_string() methods.
>>
>> o Bio::Tools::dpAlign now provides sequence profile alignments.
>>
>> o Bio::Tools::GFF now parses GFF version 2.5 (a.k.a. GTF).
>>
>> o Bio::Tools::Fgenesh, Bio::Tools::tRNAscanSE are new report
>> parsers.
>>
>> o Bio::Tools::SiRNA includes two new rulesets (Saigo and Tuschl)
>> for designing small inhibitory RNA.
>>
>> o Bio::Tree::DistanceFactory provides NJ and UPGMA tree-building
>> methods based on a distance matrix.
>>
>> o Bio::Tree::Statistics provides an assess_bootstrap() method to
>> calculate bootstrap support values on a guide tree topology,
>> based on provided bootstrap tree topologies.
>>
>> o Bio::TreeIO now supports the Pagel (PAG) tree format.
>>
>> --
>> Jason Stajich
>> jason.stajich at duke.edu
>> http://www.duke.edu/~jes12/
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