developer is officially maintaining the package.
The rationale for changing this from "tech-pkg" to "pkgsrc-users" is
that it implies that any user can try to maintain the package (by
submitting patches to the mailing list). Since the folks most likely
to care about the package are the folks that want to use it or are
already using it, this would leverage the energy of users who aren't
developers.
Revision history for Bioperl core modules
0.7 Large number of changes, including refactoring of the
Object system, new parsers, new functionality and
all round better system. Highlights are:
o Refactored root of inheritance: moved to a lightweight Bio::Root::RootI;
Bio::Root::IO for I/O and file/handle capabilities.
o Imported BPlite modules from Ian Korf for BLAST
parsing. This is considered the supported BLAST parser;
Bio::Tools::Blast.pm will eventually phase out due to lack of support.
o Improved Sequence Feature model. Added complete location
modelling (with fuzzy and compound locations). See
Bio::LocationI and the modules under Bio/Location. Added
support in Genbank/EMBL format parsing to completely parse
feature tables for complex locations.
o Moved special support for databanks etc to specialized modules under
Bio/Seq/. One of these supports very large sequences through
a temporary file as a backend.
o Explicit Gene, Transcript and Exon SeqFeature objects, supporting
CDS retrieval and exon shuffling.
o More parsers: Sim4, Genscan, MZEF, ESTScan, BPbl2seq, GFF
o Refactored Bio/DB/GenBank+GenPept. There is now also DB/SwissProt and
DB/GDB (the latter has platform-specific limitations).
o New analysis parser framework for HT sequence annotation (see
Bio::SeqAnalysisParserI and Bio::Factory::SeqAnalysisParserFactory)
o New Alignment IO framework
o New Index modules (Swissprot)
o New modules for running Blast within perl
(Bio::Tools::Run::StandAloneBlast). Added modules for running
Multiple Sequence Alignment tools ClustalW and TCoffee
(Bio::Tools::Run::Alignment).
o New Cookbook-style tutorial (see bptutorial.pl). Improved
documentation across the package.
o Much improved cross platform support. Many known incompatibilities
have been fixed; however, NT and Mac do not work across the entire
setup (see PLATFORMS).
o Many bug fixes, code restructuring, etc. Overall stability and
maintainability benefit a lot.
o A total of 957 automatic tests
0.6.2
There are very few functionality changes but a large
number of software improvements/bug fixes across the package.
o The EMBL/GenBank parsing are improved.
o The Swissprot reading is improved. Swissprot writing
is disabled as it doesn't work at all. This needs to
wait for 0.7 release
o BLAST reports with no hits are correctly parsed.
o Several other bugs of the BLAST parser (regular expressions, ...)
fixed.
o Old syntax calls have been replaced with more modern syntax
o Modules that did not work at all, in particular the Sim4
set have been removed
o Bio::SeqFeature::Generic and Bio::SeqFeature::FeaturePair
have improved compliance with interface specs and documentation
o Mailing list documentation updated throughout the distribution
o Most minor bug fixes have happened.
o The scripts in /examples now work and have the modern syntax
rather than the deprecated syntax
0.6.1 Sun April 2 2000
o Sequences can have Sequence Features attached to them
- The sequence features can be read from or written to
EMBL and GenBank style flat files
o Objects for Annotation, including References (but not
full medline abstracts), Database links and Comments are
provided
o A Species object to represent nodes on a taxonomy tree
is provided
o The ability to parse HMMER and Sim4 output has been added
o The Blast parsing has been improved, with better PSI-BLAST
support and better overall behaviour.
o Flat file indexed databases provide both random access
and sequential access to their component sequences.
o A CodonTable object has been written with all known
CodonTables accessible.
o A number of new lightweight analysis tools have been
added, such as molecular weight determination.
The 0.6 release also has improved software engineering
o The sequence objects have been rewritten, providing more
maintainable and easier to implement objects. These
objects are backwardly compatible with the 0.05.1 objects
o Many objects are defined in terms of interfaces and then
a Perl implementation has been provided. The interfaces
are found in the 'I' files (module names ending in 'I').
This means that it is possible to wrap C/CORBA/SQL access
as true "bioperl" objects, compatible with the rest of
bioperl.
o The SeqIO system has been overhauled to provide better
processing and perl-like automatic interpretation of <>
over arguments.
o Many more tests have been added (a total of 172 automatic
tests are now run before release).
0.05.1 Tue Jun 29 05:30:44 1999
- Central distribution now requires Perl 5.004. This was
done to get around 5.003-based problems in Bio/Index/*
and SimpleAlign.
- Various bug fixes in the Bio::Tools::Blast modules
including better exception handling and PSI-Blast
support. See Bio/Tools/Blast/CHANGES for more.
- Fixed the Parse mechanism in Seq.pm to use readseq.
Follow the instructions in README for how to install
it (basically, you have to edit Parse.pm).
- Improved documentation of Seq.pm, indicating where
objects are returned and where strings are returned.
- Fixed uninitialized warnings in Bio::Root::Object.pm
and Bio::Tools::SeqPattern.pm.
- Bug fixes for PR#s: 30,31,33-35,41,42,44,45,47-50,52.
0.05 Sun Apr 25 01:14:11 1999
- Bio::Tools::Blast modules have less memory problems
and faster parsing. Webblast uses LWP and supports
more functionality. See Bio/Tools/Blast/CHANGES for more.
- The Bio::SeqIO system has been started, moving the
sequence reformatting code out of the sequence object
- The Bio::Index:: system has been started, providing
generic index capabilities and specifically works for
Fasta formatted databases and EMBL .dat formatted
databases
- The Bio::DB:: system started, providing access to
databases, both via flat file + index (see above) and
via http to NCBI
- The scripts/ directory, where industrial strength scripts
are put has been started.
- Many changes - a better distribution all round.
ones to do, and each compiled and installed/de-installed apparently
correctly.
As a side effect of the dynamic PLIST, we no longer need to have separate
-static and -shared PLISTs. It's now easier than ever to make a perl5
package for NetBSD :)
