1 # $Id: BUGS,v 1.7 2006-11-16 10:51:50 sendu Exp $
5 Bugs are tracked at this URL:
6 http://bugzilla.bioperl.org/
11 Though a stable release, a few bugs and enhancements remain for this series
12 that will be addressed in future point releases:
16 2247 Have Bio::SearchIO::blast methods available for other BLAST parsers
17 2332 Software for analysis of redundant fragments of affys human mitochip v2
18 2365 Add support for making the image background transparent
19 2439 multiple results HTMLResultWriter.pm and non-redundant entries in SearchIO
20 2456 reroot function (Bio::Tree::TreeFunctionsI) shifts bootstrap values
21 2463 bp_seqconvert.pl & Bio::SeqIO code cleanup and user friendly interface
22 2476 "Undefined sub-sequence" when processing tblastx output
23 2482 paml4 mlc file fails to parse
24 2492 Method "pi" in package Bio::PopGen::Statistics
25 2513 creating a Bio::SeqFeature::Annotation object downloads the entire so.obo
26 2545 bioperl nightly build script svn failure on lock
27 2594 Bio::Species memory leak
28 2633 Incorrect identity calculation in Bio::SearchIO::fasta
29 2673 original fields not inherited by seq objects in alignment slices
30 2686 WU-BLAST XML support
31 2691 Bio::Microarray::Tools::ReseqChip depends on CPAN module Statistics::Frequency
32 2696 global verbosity does not propagate to new objects post-set
33 2700 [TODO] Refactor Build.PL
34 2702 [TODO] scripts recopied upon each call to './Build test'
35 2703 Bio::Tools::GuessSeqFormat guesses SELEX as PHYLIP
36 2713 [TODO] Update core Infernal parsing to v1.0, add related tests to bioperl-run
37 2715 [TODO] LocatableSeq symbols are globally set (should be localized)
42 There are no known installation bugs in 1.5.2 per se, but issues with
43 external programs may cause problems. See the following URL for details:
44 http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Release_1.5.2#Notes
50 * The StandAloneBlast.t test is failing on cygwin installations (and
51 nowhere else). We suspect something to do with temporary file
52 opening. Fixed in 1.4 (set TMPDIR).
58 * Bio::Tools::Blast continues to cause problems for some people. As
59 it is not actively maintained there are a slew of reported bugs for
60 it that have not been fixed.
62 * Bio::Tools::Run::Alignment::TCoffee - t_coffee binary does not get
63 all parameters it needs when aligning (two) two DNA sequences
66 * Bio::Tools::Run::ClustalW and t/ClustalW will report errors for
67 clustalw versions 1.8x due to a bug in clustalw.
69 * Bio::DB::GenBank continues to have intermittent errors. Bio::DB::GDB
70 is also unreliable at times and one can safely ignore errors from
71 these during a make test.
72 Bio::DB::GenBank is unable to download whole contig files as well
73 as NCBI ref seqs like NT_* numbers unless the -format flag is
74 passed in and specified as 'fasta' in the constructor.
75 get_Stream_by_batch() also has intermittent errors which are being
82 * NCBI has changed some of the cgi scripts for retrieving sequences
83 online which as resulted in some of the DB methods from not working
84 consistently. We are addressing these in the 0.9.x and 1.0 series
85 of releases. We recommend using the Bio::DB::EMBL object that is
86 part of the later releases.
88 Additionally RefSeq Contigs are not properly downloaded, please see
89 the bioperl list archives for information about potential
90 workarounds and ongoing development effort to address these.
96 * Bio::Tools::BPlite does not parse and set frame properly for
97 tblastx reports (Jitterbug bug # 978).
99 * Bio::Tools::BPlite interface needs to be updated to fix parsing
100 more than bl2seq report report (Jitterbug bug #940), this has been
101 fixed on the main code trunk and will be part of the next major
104 * If File::Temp is not installed, tempdirs are not cleaned up
105 properly. This is fixed on main code trunk with the introduction
106 of rmtree method in Bio::Root::IO, however, it is best to install
107 File::Temp when running 0.7 branch code.
109 * Bio::Tools::Blast does not allow users to run blast, instead use
110 Bio::Tools::Run::StandAloneBlast to run local blasts. To submit
111 jobs to a remote blast server like NCBI a module
112 Bio::Tools::Run::RemoteBlast has been written but is part of the
113 main trunk code and must be obtained through CVS until the next
114 major bioperl release.
120 * Bio::Tools::BPlite doc error lists
121 code synopsis code as
122 my $parser = new BPlite(\*FH);
124 my $parser = new Bio::Tools::BPlite(\*FH);