[Bioperl-l] Google Summer of Code student Chase Miller
Chris Fields
cjfields at illinois.edu
Sun May 17 22:40:24 UTC 2009
On May 15, 2009, at 12:07 PM, Albert Vilella wrote:
> Heh, I understand what you say. I am in a similar position from the
> point that I would prefer to switch to a more modern bioperl but the
> ensembl comparative genomics code -- ensembl-compara -- relies on
> the ensembl-core code, which relies on bioperl 1.2.3. We could all
> switch to bioperl 1.6 but I cannot switch the ensembl-compara code
> if code doesn't switch as well. I haven't been very successful in
> raising this issue so far, but I can try again :-p
>
> One of the things that has changed a lot is swissprot support
> (swiss.pm). Another object that I am using a lot is SimpleAlign.pm,
> which in the modern version has a lot more methods.
I understand that the reasoning for requiring 1.2.3 has something to
do with Bio::Annotation being too heavyweight. If that is the only
impediment I think we can work something out.
chris
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