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:
14 Bug Summary (additional info)
16 2247 Have Bio::SearchIO::blast methods available for other BLAST parsers
18 2332 Software for analysis of redundant fragments of affys human mitochip v2
19 (API hasn't stabilized, may appear in a 1.6 point release)
20 2439 multiple results HTMLResultWriter.pm and non-redundant entries in SearchIO
21 (partially implemented)
22 2456 reroot function (Bio::Tree::TreeFunctionsI) shifts bootstrap values
23 (fairly significant bug, method gives erroneous results)
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 2633 Incorrect identity calculation in Bio::SearchIO::fasta
37 (fixed but requires more code evaluation)
38 2673 original fields not inherited by seq objects in alignment slices
39 (request for bequest/bequeath behavior for attribute carryover)
40 2686 WU-BLAST XML support
41 (partially implemented, but issues remain)
42 2691 Bio::Microarray::Tools::ReseqChip depends on CPAN module Statistics::Frequency
43 (related to bug 2332 above)
44 2696 global verbosity does not propagate to new objects post-set
45 (requires more specific implementation details)
46 2700 Refactor Build.PL
47 (some of the behind-the-scenes stuff is a little klunky)
48 2702 Scripts recopied upon each call to './Build test'
50 2703 Bio::Tools::GuessSeqFormat guesses SELEX as PHYLIP
51 (minor bug which mistakes format)
52 2713 Update core Infernal parsing to v1.0, add related tests to bioperl-run
54 2715 LocatableSeq symbols are globally set
55 (bug related to sequence symbol issues; rarely surfaces but needs addressing)
61 There are no known installation bugs in 1.5.2 per se, but issues with
62 external programs may cause problems. See the following URL for details:
63 http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Release_1.5.2#Notes
69 * The StandAloneBlast.t test is failing on cygwin installations (and
70 nowhere else). We suspect something to do with temporary file
71 opening. Fixed in 1.4 (set TMPDIR).
77 * Bio::Tools::Blast continues to cause problems for some people. As
78 it is not actively maintained there are a slew of reported bugs for
79 it that have not been fixed.
81 * Bio::Tools::Run::Alignment::TCoffee - t_coffee binary does not get
82 all parameters it needs when aligning (two) two DNA sequences
85 * Bio::Tools::Run::ClustalW and t/ClustalW will report errors for
86 clustalw versions 1.8x due to a bug in clustalw.
88 * Bio::DB::GenBank continues to have intermittent errors. Bio::DB::GDB
89 is also unreliable at times and one can safely ignore errors from
90 these during a make test.
91 Bio::DB::GenBank is unable to download whole contig files as well
92 as NCBI ref seqs like NT_* numbers unless the -format flag is
93 passed in and specified as 'fasta' in the constructor.
94 get_Stream_by_batch() also has intermittent errors which are being
101 * NCBI has changed some of the cgi scripts for retrieving sequences
102 online which as resulted in some of the DB methods from not working
103 consistently. We are addressing these in the 0.9.x and 1.0 series
104 of releases. We recommend using the Bio::DB::EMBL object that is
105 part of the later releases.
107 Additionally RefSeq Contigs are not properly downloaded, please see
108 the bioperl list archives for information about potential
109 workarounds and ongoing development effort to address these.
115 * Bio::Tools::BPlite does not parse and set frame properly for
116 tblastx reports (Jitterbug bug # 978).
118 * Bio::Tools::BPlite interface needs to be updated to fix parsing
119 more than bl2seq report report (Jitterbug bug #940), this has been
120 fixed on the main code trunk and will be part of the next major
123 * If File::Temp is not installed, tempdirs are not cleaned up
124 properly. This is fixed on main code trunk with the introduction
125 of rmtree method in Bio::Root::IO, however, it is best to install
126 File::Temp when running 0.7 branch code.
128 * Bio::Tools::Blast does not allow users to run blast, instead use
129 Bio::Tools::Run::StandAloneBlast to run local blasts. To submit
130 jobs to a remote blast server like NCBI a module
131 Bio::Tools::Run::RemoteBlast has been written but is part of the
132 main trunk code and must be obtained through CVS until the next
133 major bioperl release.
139 * Bio::Tools::BPlite doc error lists
140 code synopsis code as
141 my $parser = new BPlite(\*FH);
143 my $parser = new Bio::Tools::BPlite(\*FH);