Bioperl 1.2.2 released


This is a bug fix release from the stable branch.

The Bioperl release 1.2.2 is available at http://www.bioperl.org/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 at: http://www.bioperl.org/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:

    • Bio::OntologyIO::dagflat

    • Bio::Annotation::OntologyTerm

    • Bio::TreeIO::newick

    • Bio::Tools::BPbl2seq

    • Bio::Tools::Genemark

    • 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:

    • Bio::Tools::Run::Eponine

    • Bio::Tools::Run::FootPrinter

    • Bio::Tools::Run::Genewise

    • Bio::Tools::Run::Genscan

    • Bio::Tools::Run::Hmmpfam

    • Bio::Tools::Run::Mdust

    • Bio::Tools::Run::Signalp

    • Bio::Tools::Run::Phylo::Phylip::SeqBoot

    • Bio::Tools::Run::Phylo::Phylip::Neighbor

    • Bio::Tools::Run::Alignment::Blat

    • Bio::Tools::Run::Alignment::Lagan

More details are in distribution file ‘Changes’.

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