[Bioperl-l] BioPerl 1.6.1 released

[Chris Fields]

We are pleased to announce the availability of BioPerl 1.6.1, the  
latest release of BioPerl core code.  You can grab it here:

Via CPAN:

http://search.cpan.org/~cjfields/BioPerl-1.6.1/

Via the BioPerl website:

http://bioperl.org/DIST/BioPerl-1.6.1.tar.bz2
http://bioperl.org/DIST/BioPerl-1.6.1.tar.gz
http://bioperl.org/DIST/BioPerl-1.6.1.zip

The PPM for Windows should also finally be available this week,  
ActivePerl problems permitting (we will post more information when it  
becomes available).

Tons of bug fixes and changes have been incorporated into this  
release.  For a more complete change list please see the 'Changes'  
file included with the distribution.

A few highlights:

* FASTQ parsing and interconversion of the three FASTQ variants  
(Sanger, Illumina, Solexa) now works (a concerted OBF effort!)
* Significant refactoring of Bio::Restriction methods
* Complete refactoring of Bio::Search-related tiling code, including  
HOWTO documentation
* GBrowse-related fixes
    - berkeleydb database now autoindexes wig files and locks correctly
    - add Pg, SQLite, and faster BerkeleyDB implementations
* Infernal 1.0 output is now parsed
* New SearchIO-based parser for gmap -f9 output
* BLAST XML parsing essentially complete
* Installation via CPANPLUS should now work
* For those using Strawberry Perl on Windows, the latest build is  
expected to pass all tests.
* 'raw' sequence format now parsed by line or optionally as a single  
sequence
* SCF parsing/writing now round-trips
* Demo code for using RPS-BLAST and Bio::Tools::Run::RemoteBlast
* Bio::Tools::SeqPattern now has a backtranslate() method
* Bio::Tree::Statistics now has methods to calculate Fitch-based  
score, internal trait values, statratio(), sum of leaf distances  
[heikki]
* scripts
    - update to bp_seqfeature_load for SQLite [lstein]
    - hivq.pl - commmand-line interface to Bio::DB::HIV [maj]
    - fastam9_to_table - fix for MPI output [jason]
    - gccalc - total stats [jason]
    - einfo  - simple script to find up-to-date NCBI database list,  
list field and link values for a specific database

We will shortly release updates for BioPerl-db, BioPerl-run, and  
BioPerl-network.  Enjoy!

chris