1 # $Id: BUGS,v 1.7 2006-11-16 10:51:50 sendu Exp $
5 Bugs are tracked at this URL:
6 https://redmine.open-bio.org/projects/bioperl/
11 Though a stable release, some bugs and enhancements remain for this series
12 that will be addressed in future point releases. For a full list please see:
14 https://redmine.open-bio.org/projects/bioperl/
16 Bug Summary (additional info)
18 2247 Have Bio::SearchIO::blast methods available for other BLAST parsers
20 2332 Software for analysis of redundant fragments of affys human mitochip v2
21 (API hasn't stabilized, may appear in a 1.6 point release)
22 2439 multiple results HTMLResultWriter.pm and non-redundant entries in SearchIO
23 (partially implemented)
24 2463 bp_seqconvert.pl & Bio::SeqIO code cleanup and user friendly interface
26 2476 "Undefined sub-sequence" when processing tblastx output
27 (related to HSP tiling)
28 2482 paml4 mlc file fails to parse
29 (may require refactoring Bio::Tools::Phylo::PAML)
30 2492 Method "pi" in package Bio::PopGen::Statistics
31 (awaiting comment from Jason)
32 2513 creating a Bio::SeqFeature::Annotation object downloads the entire so.obo
33 (should allow local copies)
34 2594 Bio::Species memory leak
35 (fix implemented, but additional leaks likely remain)
36 2673 original fields not inherited by seq objects in alignment slices
37 (request for bequest/bequeath behavior for attribute carryover)
38 2686 WU-BLAST XML support
39 (partially implemented, but issues remain)
40 2691 Bio::Microarray::Tools::ReseqChip depends on CPAN module Statistics::Frequency
41 (related to bug 2332 above)
42 2696 global verbosity does not propagate to new objects post-set
43 (requires more specific implementation details)
44 2700 Refactor Build.PL
45 (some of the behind-the-scenes stuff is a little klunky)
46 2702 Scripts recopied upon each call to './Build test'
48 2703 Bio::Tools::GuessSeqFormat guesses SELEX as PHYLIP
49 (minor bug that mistakes format)
50 2707 Bio::Tools::Run::StandAloneBlast does not quote shell metacharacters in
51 filenames, but Bio::SearchIO::blast does
52 (bug within StandAloneBlast)
53 2715 LocatableSeq symbols are globally set
54 (bug related to sequence symbol issues; rarely surfaces but needs addressing)
60 There are no known installation bugs in 1.5.2 per se, but issues with
61 external programs may cause problems. See the following URL for details:
62 http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Release_1.5.2#Notes
68 * The StandAloneBlast.t test is failing on cygwin installations (and
69 nowhere else). We suspect something to do with temporary file
70 opening. Fixed in 1.4 (set TMPDIR).
76 * Bio::Tools::Blast continues to cause problems for some people. As
77 it is not actively maintained there are a slew of reported bugs for
78 it that have not been fixed.
80 * Bio::Tools::Run::Alignment::TCoffee - t_coffee binary does not get
81 all parameters it needs when aligning (two) two DNA sequences
84 * Bio::Tools::Run::ClustalW and t/ClustalW will report errors for
85 clustalw versions 1.8x due to a bug in clustalw.
87 * Bio::DB::GenBank continues to have intermittent errors. Bio::DB::GDB
88 is also unreliable at times and one can safely ignore errors from
89 these during a make test.
90 Bio::DB::GenBank is unable to download whole contig files as well
91 as NCBI ref seqs like NT_* numbers unless the -format flag is
92 passed in and specified as 'fasta' in the constructor.
93 get_Stream_by_batch() also has intermittent errors which are being
100 * NCBI has changed some of the cgi scripts for retrieving sequences
101 online which as resulted in some of the DB methods from not working
102 consistently. We are addressing these in the 0.9.x and 1.0 series
103 of releases. We recommend using the Bio::DB::EMBL object that is
104 part of the later releases.
106 Additionally RefSeq Contigs are not properly downloaded, please see
107 the bioperl list archives for information about potential
108 workarounds and ongoing development effort to address these.
114 * Bio::Tools::BPlite does not parse and set frame properly for
115 tblastx reports (Jitterbug bug # 978).
117 * Bio::Tools::BPlite interface needs to be updated to fix parsing
118 more than bl2seq report report (Jitterbug bug #940), this has been
119 fixed on the main code trunk and will be part of the next major
122 * If File::Temp is not installed, tempdirs are not cleaned up
123 properly. This is fixed on main code trunk with the introduction
124 of rmtree method in Bio::Root::IO, however, it is best to install
125 File::Temp when running 0.7 branch code.
127 * Bio::Tools::Blast does not allow users to run blast, instead use
128 Bio::Tools::Run::StandAloneBlast to run local blasts. To submit
129 jobs to a remote blast server like NCBI a module
130 Bio::Tools::Run::RemoteBlast has been written but is part of the
131 main trunk code and must be obtained through CVS until the next
132 major bioperl release.
138 * Bio::Tools::BPlite doc error lists
139 code synopsis code as
140 my $parser = new BPlite(\*FH);
142 my $parser = new Bio::Tools::BPlite(\*FH);