From heikki at ebi.ac.uk  Tue Jul  8 16:06:30 2003
From: heikki at ebi.ac.uk (Heikki Lehvaslaiho)
Date: Tue Jul  8 12:33:49 2003
Subject: [Bioperl-announce-l] Bioperl 1.2.2 released
Message-ID: <1057676832.19081.3.camel@localhost>

This is a bug fix release from the stable branch.

The Bioperl release 1.2.2 is available at

http://www.bioperl.org/ftp/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. The latest bioperl-run release is
therefore:

http://www.bioperl.org/ftp/DIST/bioperl-run-1.2.2.tar.gz


The main bug fixes in this release are:

bioperl

- OBDA Registry code is up to latest specs and fuly functional
- Sequence retrieval from NCBI  works again after URL change 
  (Bio::DB::GenBank)
- The BLAST output parsed now works on megablast and parses 
  even the last hit
- Result writers now correctly report alignment start/end info
  for translated BLAST/FASTA searches 
  (Bio::SearchIO::Writer::(HTML|Text)ResultWriter)
- Improvements in closing and keeping open file handles
- Robustness of Bio::Graphics modules have been improved

- Other improved modules:
    o Bio::OntologyIO::dagflat
    o Bio::Annotation::OntologyTerm 
    o Bio::TreeIO::newick
    o Bio::Tools::BPbl2seq
    o Bio::Tools::Genemark
    o Bio::SeqIO::genbank

bioperl-run

- SoapLab and PISE improvements
- New wrapper for Vista: http://www-gsd.lbl.gov/vista/
  (Bio::Tools::Run::Vista)
- Other improved modules:
    o Bio::Tools::Run::Eponine
    o Bio::Tools::Run::FootPrinter
    o Bio::Tools::Run::Genewise
    o Bio::Tools::Run::Genscan
    o Bio::Tools::Run::Hmmpfam
    o Bio::Tools::Run::Mdust
    o Bio::Tools::Run::Signalp
    o Bio::Tools::Run::Phylo::Phylip::SeqBoot
    o Bio::Tools::Run::Phylo::Phylip::Neighbor
    o Bio::Tools::Run::Alignment::Blat
    o Bio::Tools::Run::Alignment::Lagan

More details are in distribution file 'Changes'.




Thank you for all who reported bugs and made this release possible.

On behalf of the Bioperl core team,

	-Heikki

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