[Biojava-l] BioJava Legacy 1.8.2 released

[Michael Heuer]

BioJava Legacy 1.8.2 has been released and is available from
http://biojava.org/wiki/BioJava:Download_1.8.2 as well as from the
BioJava maven repository at http://www.biojava.org/download/maven/ .

BioJava Legacy 1.8.2 adds several new features and bug fixes

- Added jdk 1.5+ generics to biojavax module

- Improvements to Locations to support circularity

- Fixes for Date formatting

- Added streaming and low-level parsers to FASTQ package to greatly
improve performance

- Added FastqTools class for converting FASTQ-formatted sequences into
biojava-legacy SymbolLists, Sequences, and PhredSequences


This release would not have been possible with contributions from
numerous people, thanks to all for their support!

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.

About BioJava Legacy:

BioJava Legacy is a continuation of the version 1.x releases of
BioJava.  The most recent release of BioJava 3 is version 3.0.3.

   michael