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2 Revision history for BioPerl core modules
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4 The comprehensive history and ongoing development of BioPerl:
6 http://github.com/bioperl/bioperl-live
8 Some of that history is also highlighted on our wiki:
10 http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Change_log
11 http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/History_of_BioPerl
13 Bugs and requested features list:
15 https://github.com/bioperl/bioperl-live/issues
17 CPAN releases are branched from 'master'.
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22 * WrapperBase quoted option values [majensen]
23 * Various documentation fixes and updates [bosborne]
27 * Bio::SearchIO::infernal
28 - Issue #131: added CMSEARCH parsing support for Infernal 1.1 [pcantalupo]
29 * Bio::Search::HSP::ModelHSP
30 - Added a 'noncanonical_string' method to retrieve the NC line from CMSEARCH
32 * Bio::Search::Result::INFERNALResult
33 - Added new module to represent features of Infernal reports [pcantalupo]
37 * Fixes in Bio::Root::Build to deal with META.json/yml for CPAN indexing [cjfields]
38 * Bio::SeqFeature::Generic spliced_seq() bug fix [Eric Snyder, via bosborne]
39 * NeXML parser fixes [fjossandon]
40 * Bug fix for Bio::DB::SeqFeature memory adapter [lstein]
41 * Issue #70: CONTIG parsing in GenBank output fixed [fjossandon]
42 * Issue #76: Circular genome fixes with Bio::Location::Split [fjossandon]
43 * Issue #80: Fix lack of caching issue with Bio::DB::Taxonomy [fjossandon]
44 * Issue #81: Small updates to make sure possible memory leaks are detected [cjfields]
45 * Issue #84: EMBL format wrapping problem [nyamned]
46 * Issue #90: Missing entries for translation tables 24 and 25 [fjossandon]
47 * Issue #95: Speed up of Bio::DB::Fasta::subseq by using a compiled regex
48 or compiled C code (when Inline::C is installed) [rocky]
49 * Fix various Bio::Tools::Analysis remote server config problems [cjfields]
50 * Added several missing 'Data::Stag' and 'LWP::UserAgent' requirements [fjossandon]
51 * Added a workaround in Bio::DB::Registry to get Username in Windows [fjossandon]
52 * For HMMer report parsing, changed "$hsp->bits" to return 0 instead of undef
53 to be consistent with "$hit->bits" behaviour [fjossandon]
54 * Fixed a bug in HMMer3 parsing, where an homology line ending in CS or RF
55 aminoacids made "next_seq" confused and broke the parser [fjossandon]
56 * Adjusted FTLocationFactory.pm to comply with current GenBank Feature Table
57 Definition, so now "join(complement(C..D),complement(A..B))" is equivalent
58 to "complement(join(A..B,C..D))" [fjossandon]
64 * Bug/feature issue tracking has moved to GitHub Issues:
65 https://github.com/bioperl/bioperl-live/issues
66 * DB_File has been demoted from "required" to "recommended",
67 which should make easier for Windows users to install BioPerl
68 if they don't need that module.
72 * Bio::Search::HSP::GenericHSP
73 - Bug #3370, added a "posterior_string" method to retrieve the
74 posterior probability lines (PP) from HMMER3 reports [fjossandon]
75 - Added a "consensus_string" method to retrieve the consensus
76 structure lines (CS|RF) from HMMER2 and HMMER3 reports when available [fjossandon]
77 * Bio::SearchIO::hmmer2
78 - The number of identical and conserved residues are now calculated
79 directly from the homology line [fjossandon]
80 - Now the Query Length and Hit Length are reported when the alignment
81 runs until the end of the sequence/model ('.]' or '[]') [fjossandon]
82 - Implemented the capture of the consensus structure lines [fjossandon]
83 * Bio::SearchIO::hmmer3
84 - The number of identical and conserved residues are now calculated
85 directly from the homology line [fjossandon]
86 - Now the Hit Length is reported when the alignment runs until the end
87 of the sequence/model ('.]' or '[]') [fjossandon]
88 - Implemented the capture of the consensus structure lines [fjossandon]
89 - Implemented the capture of the posterior probability lines [fjossandon]
90 - Completed the development of NHMMER parsing, including alignments [fjossandon]
91 * Bio::SearchIO::SearchResultEventBuilder & Bio::SearchIO::IteratedSearchResultEventBuilder
92 - Feature #2615, moved "_init_parse_params", "max_significance, "signif",
93 "min_score", "min_bits, and "hit_filter" methods from
94 'IteratedSearchResultEventBuilder' to parent 'SearchResultEventBuilder'.
95 This means that the Bio::SearchIO->new() parameters '-signif', '-score',
96 '-bits' and '-hit_filter' will now work with other Bio::SearchIO formats
97 besides Blast, instead of being ignored. Added tests for all moved methods
98 using HMMER outputs and run the full test suite and everything pass [fjossandon]
99 * Bio::SeqIO::MultiFile
100 - Autodetection of file format [fangly]
101 * Bio::Tools::GuessSeqFormat:
102 - Format detection from non-seekable filehandles such as STDIN [fangly]
106 * Fix problems when using Storable as backend for cloning [v1.6.x branch, tsibley]
107 * Fix potential problems with Storable in Bio::DB::SeqFeature::Store [tsibley]
108 * SeqFeature::Lite: Fixed wrong strand when using "+", "-", or "." [nathanweeks]
109 * Abstract: Fixed ActivePerl incapability of removing temporary files
110 because of problems closing tied filehandles [fjossandon]
111 * IndexedBase: For Windows' ActivePerl, several LocalDB tests were failing
112 because ActivePerl were producing a ".index.pag" and ".index.dir"
113 files instead of a single ".index" file (like Strawberry Perl).
114 Now those temporary files are correctly considered and deleted. [fjossandon]
115 * Test files: Added missing module requirements (DB_File and Data::Stag)
116 to several tests files that were failing because those modules were
117 not present. Now those test files are correctly skipped instead. [fjossandon]
118 * Blast: Added support to changes in bl2seq from BLAST+ output, which
119 now uses "Subject=" instead of ">" to start hit lines [yschensandiego]
120 * Phylip: Return undef in "next_aln" at file end to avoid
121 an infinite loop [yschensandiego]
122 * HMMER3: When a hit description is too long, it is truncated in
123 the Scores table. In those cases, the more complete description from
124 the Annotation line (>>) will be used [fjossandon]
125 * GenericHSP: Added '.' to gap symbols in "_pre_gaps" (except for ERPIN),
126 since it is now used by HMMER3 format in alignments [fjossandon]
127 * GenericHit: Changed "frac_aligned_query" and "frac_aligned_hit"
128 to return undef if the query/hit length is unknown (like in some
129 HMMER outputs), to avoid division by 0 crashes. Also "query_length"
130 now is set to 0 if its undefined, to be consistent with hit "length" [fjossandon]
131 * HMMER: fixed many bugs in the parsing of Hmmer2 and Hmmer3 outputs,
132 added support to multi-query reports, reduced code redundancy,
133 and eliminated the automatic removal of hits below "inclusion threshold" [fjossandon]
134 * [3369] - Fixed reported bugs in parse from HMMSEARCH3 reports [fjossandon]
135 * [3446] - Fixed wrong marker position in Bio::Map::Physical [fjossandon]
136 * [3455] - Fixed wrong print of DBLink in Genbank file [bosborne]
137 * Fixed some Bio::Root::Utilities subroutines [fjossandon]
138 * Double-quotes on paths are needed in some places [fjossandon]
139 * [3453] - Allow multiple homologies and products in Entrezgene [fjossandon]
140 * Use "NUL" instead of"/dev/null" when running in Windows [fjossandon]
141 * Updated all files from Bio-Root, Bio-Coordinate and Bio-SearchIO-blastxml
142 with the latest changes made in their own repositories [fjossandon]
143 * General synching of files with the master branch [fjossandon]
144 * Fixed tests failing in Windows because of using Linux commands [fjossandon]
145 * Closed many open filehandles that prevented temporary files deletion [fjossandon]
146 * Fixed broken MeSH parser [fjossandon]
147 * Fixed missing detection of format in SeqIO when given a -string [fangly]
151 * Major Windows support updates! [fjossandon]
152 * MAKER update to allow for stricter standard codon table [cjfields]
153 * Better support for circular sequences [fjossandon]
154 * Fixes for some complex location types [fjossandon]
155 * Address CONTIG bug in GenBank format, bug #3448 [cjfields]
156 * Fix bug #2978 related to BLAST report type [fjossandon]
157 * Deobfuscator fixes [DaveMessina]
161 * Address CPAN test failures [cjfields]
162 * Add BIOPROJECT support for Genbank files [hyphaltip]
163 * Better regex support for HMMER3 output [bosborne]
167 * Minor update to address CPAN test failures
171 * Remove Bio::Biblio and related files [carandraug]
172 - this cause version clashes with an independently-released
173 version of Bio::Biblio
179 * Hash randomization fixes for perl 5.18.x
180 - Note: at least one module (Bio::Map::Physical) still has a failing test;
181 this is documented in bug #3446 and has been TODO'd; we will be pulling
182 Bio::Map and similar modules out of core into separate distributions in the
183 1.7.x release series [cjfields]
187 * Bio::Seq::SimulatedRead
188 - New module to represent reads taken from other sequences [fangly]
190 - Support of Clone::Fast as a faster cloning alternative [fangly]
192 - Moved the format() and variant() methods from Bio::*IO modules to
193 Bio::Root::IO [fangly]
194 - Can now use format() to get the type of IO format in use [fangly]
196 - New regexp() method to create regular expressions from IUPAC sequences
198 * Bio::SeqFeature::Primer and Bio::Seq::PrimedSeq:
199 - Code refresh [fangly]
201 - Added support for the Greengenes and Silva taxonomies [fangly]
202 * Bio::Tree::TreeFunctionsI
203 - get_lineage_string() represents a lineage as a string [fangly]
204 - add_trait() returns instead of reporting an error when the column
205 number is exceeded in add_trait() [fangly]
206 - Option to support tree leaves without trait [fangly]
207 - Allow ID of 0 in trait files [fangly]
208 * Bio::DB::Taxonomy::list
209 - Misc optimizations [fangly]
210 - Option -names of get_taxon() to help with ambiguous taxa [fangly]
211 * Bio::DB::Taxonomy::*
212 - get_num_taxa() returns the number of taxa in the database [fangly]
213 * Bio::DB::Fasta and Bio::DB::Qual
214 - support indexing an arbitrary list of files [fangly]
215 - user can supply an arbitrary index file name [fangly]
216 - new option to remove index file at the end [fangly]
218 - now handles IUPAC degenerate residues [fangly]
219 * Bio::PrimarySeq and Bio::PrimarySeqI
220 - speed improvements for large sequences [Ben Woodcroft, fangly]
222 - tightened and optimized quality string validation [fangly]
224 - new method and option 'block', to create FASTA output with space
225 intervaled blocks (similar to genbank or EMBL) has been implemented.
226 - package variables $WIDTH and $DEFAULT_SEQ_ID_TYPE have been removed
227 in favour of the methods 'width' and 'preferred_id_type` respectively.
229 - moved from bioperl-live into the separate distribution Bio-FeatureIO
230 * Bio::SeqFeature::Annotated
231 - moved from bioperl-live into the separate distribution Bio-FeatureIO
232 * Bio::Cluster::SequenceFamily
233 - improved performance when using get_members with overlapping multiple
235 * Bio::SearchIO::hmmer3
236 - now supports nhmmer [bosborne]
240 * [3302] Fixes bug in Bio::SearchIO::hmmer2.pm to correctly parse
241 multi-query hmmer output [Francisco J. Ossandon, Paul Cantalupo]
242 * [3421] Fixes bug in Bio::SearchIO::hmmer2.pm to correctly parse an HSP
243 with a line full of dashes [Francisco J. Ossandon, Paul Cantalupo]
244 * [3298] Fix bug in Bio::SearchIO::blast.pm where algorithm version
245 information was lost in a multi-result blast file [Paul Cantalupo]
246 * [3343] Fix bug in Bio::SearchIO::blasttable.pm to correctly calculate
247 total gaps [Paul Cantalupo]
248 * [3375] Fix DBLINK parsing bug in Bio::SeqIO::genbank.pm [Paul Cantalupo]
249 * [3376] Fix bug in Bio::SearchIO::hmmer2.pm to correctly handle case
250 when end of domain indicator is split across lines [Paul Cantalupo]
251 * [3240] Bio::AlignIO::stockholm now parses simple sequences [Bernd Web,
253 * [3237] Bio::DB::Fasta now allows blank lines between sequences, catches
254 instances where blank lines are within sequences [cjfields]
255 * Bio::DB::Fasta reports correct alphabet for files with multiple sequence
257 * Bio::DB::Fasta rev-comps sequences other than DNA properly [fangly]
258 * [3238] Fixes for Bio::DB::SeqFeature::Store::DBI::Pg [Thomas Burkhard,
260 * Various fixes for Stockholm file indexing and processing [bosborne]
261 * Fix edge case in FASTQ parsing where sequence of length 1 and qual of 0
262 breaks parsing [cjfields]
263 * Fix case where Bio::Seq::Meta* objects with no meta information could not
264 be reverse-complemented [fangly]
265 * Fix bug for fields without aliases in Bio::DB::Query::HIVQuery [fangly]
266 * Fix Bio::PopGen::IO::phase: sort values lexically instead of numerically
267 when unsure that values will be numerical [fangly]
268 * Fix undef warnings in Bio::SeqIO::embl [fangly]
269 * Fix undef warnings in Bio::DB::Fasta and Bio::DB::Qual [fangly]
270 * Fix Bio::Tools::IUPAC should accept any sequence object [fangly]
271 * Fix for 'Inappropriate ioctl' in Bio::DB::Store::berkeleydb3 [Olivier
273 * Bio::SeqFeature::Generic SeqfeatureI compliance: methods primary_tag,
274 source_tag and display_name must return a string, not undef [fangly]
275 * Bio::SimpleAlign and Bio::Seq compliance with Bio::FeatureHolderI
276 add_SeqFeature takes a single argument [fangly]
277 * Use cross-platform filenames and temporary directory in
278 Bio::DB::Taxonomy::flatfile [fangly]
279 * Fix bug in Bio::DB::Taxonomy::list where taxa with no ancestors were not
280 properly identified as existing taxa in the database [fangly]
281 * Fix issue where a Bio::DB::Taxonomy::list object could not be created
282 without also passing a lineage to store [fangly]
283 * Prevent passing a directory to the gi2taxid option (-g) of
284 bp_classify_hits_kingdom.pl and remove an 'earlier declaration' warning
286 * Fixed bp_genbank2gff3.pl crash when missing source feature date [fangly]
287 * Bio::PrimarySeq constructor -direct works for -seq or -ref_to_seq [fangly]
288 * Bio::Cluster::SequenceFamily - checks if the sequence has a Bio::Species
289 object before trying to access, and no longer returns repeated sequences.
296 * Use of AcePerl is deprecated; Ace.pm isn't actively maintained, and
297 modules using Ace will also be deprecated [lds, cjfields]
298 * Minor bug fix release
299 * Bio::SeqIO::gbxml tests require XML::SAX [hartzell]
300 * Address Build.PL issues when DBI is not present [hartzell]
301 * Skip gbxml.t and Interpro tests when modules not installed [cjfields]
302 * Remove deprecated code for perl 5.14.0 compat [cjfields]
303 * Due to schema changes and lack of support for older versions, support
304 for NeXML 0.9 is only (very) partially implemented.
305 See: https://redmine.open-bio.org/issues/3207
309 * [3205] - small fix to Bio::Perl blast_sequence() to make compliant with
310 docs [genehack, cjfields]
311 * $VERSION for CPAN/cpanm-based installs was broken; force setting of
312 module version from dist_version (probably not the best way to do this,
313 but it seems to work) [rbuels, cjfields]
316 1.6.900 April 14, 201
320 * This will probably be the last release to add significant features to
321 core modules; subsequent releases will be for bug fixes alone.
322 We are planning on a restructuring of core for summer 2011, potentially
323 as part of the Google Summer of Code. This may become BioPerl 2.0.
324 * Version bump represents 'just prior to v 1.7'. We may have point
325 releases to deal with bugs, with increments of 1.6.901, 1.6.902, etc.
326 This code essentially is what is on the github master branch.
330 * Core code updated for perl 5.12.x [cjfields, Charle Tilford]
332 - major overhaul of Bio::Tree code by Greg Jordan, fixes several bugs
333 - removal of Scalar::Util::weaken code, which was causing odd headaches
334 with premature GC, memory leaks with perl 5.10.0, etc [cjfields]
335 * Bio::DB::SeqFeature bug fixes for GBrowse2 compatibility [lds, scottcain,
337 * Bio::SeqIO::msout, Bio::SeqIO::mbsout - parsers for ms and mbs
340 - bug 2515 - new contribution [Ryan Golhar, jhannah]
342 - support for reading Maq, Sam and Bowtie files [maj]
343 - support for reading 454 GS Assembler (Newbler) ACE files [fangly]
344 - bug 2483: support for writing ACE files [Joshua Udall, fangly]
345 - bug 2599: support DBLINK annotation in GenBank files [cjfields]
346 - bug 2726: reading/writing granularity: whole scaffold or one contig
347 at a time [Joshua Udall, fangly]
349 - Added parsing of xrefs to OBO files, which are stored as secondary
350 dbxrefs of the cvterm [Naama Menda]
351 - General Interpro-related code refactors [dukeleto, rbuels, cjfields]
352 * PAML code updated to work with PAML 4.4d [DaveMessina]
356 * [3198] - sort tabular BLAST hits by score [DaveMessina]
357 * [3196] - fix invalid metadata produced by latest Module::Build [cjfields]
358 * [3190] - RemoteBlast GAPCOSTS regex fix [Ali Walsh, cjfields]
359 * [3185] - Bio::Tools::SeqStats->get_mol_wt now gives correct MW
361 * [3178] - fix tr/// issue in Bio::Range [Andrew Conley, cjfields]
362 * [3172] - Bio::DB::Fasta - catch possibly bad FASTA files [cjfields]
363 * [3164] - TreeFunctionsI syntax bug [gjuggler]
364 * [3163] - AssemblyIO speedup [fangly]
365 * [3160] - Bio::SearchIO::Writer::TextResultWriter output [Paul Cantalupo,
367 * [3159] - add SwissPfam support to bp_index.PLS [hyphaltip]
368 * [3158] - fix EMBL file mis-parsing [cjfields]
369 * [3157] - Bio::Restriction::Analysis 'sizes' method fixed [Marc Perry,
371 * [3153] - fix SeqIO::swiss TagTree issues [Charles Tilford, cjfields]
372 * [3148] - URL change for UniProt [cjfields]
373 * [3145] - AXT off-by-1 error [Aaron Goodman, cjfields]
374 * [3136] - HMMer3 parser fixes [kblin]
375 * [3126] - catch description [Toshihiko Akiba]
376 * [3122] - Catch instances where non-seekable filehandles were being
377 seek'd w/o checking for status [Stefan Kirov, Roy Chaudhuri]
378 * [3121] - Bio::OntologyIO cannot parse the full InterPro XML file
379 [dukeleto, rbuels, cjfields]
380 * [3120] - bp_seqfeature_gff3.pl round-trip fixes [genehack, David Breimann,
382 * [3116,3117] - perl 5.12.x warnings fixed [cjfields, Charles Tilford]
383 * [3110] - Better 'namespace' support for bp_seqfeature_load.PLS [dbolser,
385 * [3107] - BLAST alignment column_from_residue_number() [cjfields]
386 * [3104] - Bio::Species single node hierarchies [Charles Tilford, cjfields]
387 * [3092, 3090] - parsing of BLAST HSP stats [Razi Khaja, cjfields]
388 * [3089] - HSPTableWriter missing methods [Robson de Souza, cjfields]
389 * [3086] - EMBL misparsing long tags [kblin, cjfields]
390 * [3085] - CommandExts and array of files [maj, hyphaltip]
391 * [3077] - Bio::SimpleAlign slice() now correctly computes seq coordinates
392 for alignment slices [Ha X. Dang, cjfields]
393 * [3076] - XMFA alignment strand wrong [Ha X., cjfields]
394 * [3073] - fix parsing of GenBank files from RDP [cjfields]
395 * [3068] - FASTQ parse failure with trailing 0 [cjfields]
396 * [3064] - All-gap midline BLAST report issues [cjfields]
397 * [3063] - BLASt report RID [Razi Khaja, cjfields]
398 * [3058] - SearchIO::fasta parsing [DaveMessina, cjfields]
399 * [3053] - LOCUS line formatting [M. Wayne, cjfields]
400 * [3039] - correct Newick output root node branch length [gjuggler,
402 * [3038] - SELEX alignment error [Bernd, cjfields]
403 * [3033] - PrimarySeq ID setting [Bernd, maj]
404 * [3032] - Fgenesh errors [Wes Barris, hyphaltip]
405 * [3034] - AlignIO::clustal output [Bernd, DaveMessina]
406 * [3031] - Parse algorithm ref for BLAST [Razi Khaja, cjfields]
407 * [3028] - Bio::TreeIO::nexus and FigTree compat [Kevin Balbi, cjfields]
408 * [3025] - Bio::SeqIO::embl infinite loop [Adam Sjøgren, cjfields]
409 * [3040, 3023, 2974, 2921, 2753, 2636, 2482] - PAML parser fixed, works with
410 PAML 4.4d [DaveMessina]
411 * [3015, 3022] - Bio::Restriction withrefm regexp [Emmanuel Quevillon,
413 * [3020] - GFF3Loader alias attribute [Nathan Weeks, cjfields]
414 * [3018, 3019, 3021] - gmap_f9 parsing [Kiran Mukhyala, cjfields]
415 * [3017] - using threads with Bio::DB::GenBank [cjfields]
416 * [3012] - Bio::Root::HTTPget fixes [maj, cjfields]
417 * [3011] - namespace support for SF::Store::DBI::Pg [Adam Witney, cjfields]
418 * [3002] - Bio::DB::EUtilities NCBI policy updates [cjfields]
419 * [3001] - seq identifier '0' dropped with FASTA [Michael Kuhn, maj]
420 * [2984] - let LocatableSeq decide on length of phylip aln [Adam Witney,
422 * [2983] - fix score/percent ID mixup [Alexie Papanicolaou]
423 * [2977] - TreeIO issues [DaveMessina]
424 * [2959] - Bio::SeqUtils->revcom_with_features [Roy Chaudhuri, maj]
425 * [2944] - Bio::Tools::GFF score [cjfields]
426 * [2942] - correct MapTiling output [maj]
427 * [2939] - PDB residue insertion codes [John May, maj]
428 * [2930] - PrimarySeqI term symbol [Adam Sjøgren, maj]
429 * [2928] - GuessSeqFormat raw [maj]
430 * [2926] - Bio:Tools::TandemRepeatsFinder seq_id [takadonet, cjfields]
431 * [2922] - open() directive issue [cjfields]
432 * [2915] - GenBank parser infinite loop [Francisco Ossandon, cjfields]
433 * [2901] - DNAStatistics div by zero error [Janet Young, cjfields]
434 * [2899] - SeqFeature::Store host issues [lstein, dbolser]
435 * [2897] - Add a "mask_below_threshold" method to Seq::Quality [dbolser,
437 * [2881] - .scf files don't' roundtrip [Adam Sjøgren, cjfields]
438 * [2876] - CDD search with RemoteBlast [Malcolm Cook]
439 * [2863] - Root::IO::_initialize_io causes crash [rbuels, maj, DaveMessina]
440 * [2845] - Bio::Seq::Quality gives seq with no ID [Tristan Lefebure, cjfields]
441 * [2843] - FeatureIO BED to GFF fails w/ no phase [cassjm cjfields]
442 * [2773] - Bio::Tree::Node premature GC [Morgan Price, cjfields]
443 * [2764] - add ID Tracker helper for SwissProt [heikki, cjfields]
444 * [2758] - Bio::AssemblyIO ace problems [fangly]
445 * [2744] - Bio::LocatableSeq::end [Bernd, cjfields]
446 * [2726] - ace file IO [Josh, fangly]
447 * [2700] - Refactor Build.PL [cjfields]
448 * [2673] - addition of simple Root-based clone() method [cjfields]
449 * [2648] - Bio::Assembly::Scaffold->get_all_seq_ids [dbolser, fangly]
450 * [2599] - support for DBLINK annotation in GenBank files [cjfields]
451 * [2594] - Bio::Species memory leak [cjfields]
452 * [2515] - GenBank XML parser [jhannah]
453 * [2499] - Method "pi" in package Bio::PopGen::Statistics [hyphaltip]
454 * [2483] - Bio::Assembly::IO::ace write_assembly implemented [fangly]
455 * [2350] - ID consistency btwn Bio::SeqI, Bio::Align::AlignI [fangly,
457 * [1572] - no docs Bio::Location::Simple/Atomic::trunc [hyphaltip]
461 * Bio::Expression modules - these were originally designed to go with the
462 bioperl-microarray suite of tools, however they have never been completed
463 and so have been removed from the distribution. The original code has
464 been moved into the inactive bioperl-microarray suite. [cjfields]
468 * Repository moved from Subversion (SVN) to
469 http://github.com/bioperl/bioperl-live [cjfields]
470 * Bug database has moved to Redmine (https://redmine.open-bio.org)
471 * Bio::Micrarray - the tools developed for ReSeq chip analysis by Marian
472 Thieme have been moved to their own distribution (Bio-Microarray).
475 1.6.1 Sept. 29, 2009 (point release)
476 * No change from last alpha except VERSION and doc updates [cjfields]
478 1.6.0_6 Sept. 27, 2009 (sixth 1.6.1 alpha)
479 * Fix for silent OBDA bug related to FASTA validation [cjfields]
481 1.6.0_5 Sept. 27, 2009 (fifth 1.6.1 alpha)
482 * Possible fix for RT 49950 (Strawberry Perl installation) [cjfields]
483 * [RT 50048] - removed redundant VERSION, which was borking CPANPLUS
485 * BioPerl.pod -> BioPerl.pm (Perl Best Practices) [cjfields]
487 1.6.0_4 Sept. 25, 2009 (fourth 1.6.1 alpha)
488 * WinXP test fixes [cjfields, maj]
489 * BioPerl.pod added for descriptive information, fixes CPAN indexing
491 * Minor doc fixes [cjfields]
493 1.6.0_3 Sept. 22, 2009 (third 1.6.1 alpha)
494 * Fix tests failing due to merging issues [cjfields]
495 * More documentation updates for POD parsing [cjfields]
497 1.6.0_2 Sept. 22, 2009 (second 1.6.1 alpha)
499 - fix YAML meta data generation [cjfields]
501 1.6.0_1 Sept. 15, 2009 (first 1.6.1 alpha)
502 * Bio::Align::DNAStatistics
503 - fix divide by zero problem [jason]
505 - bug 2813 - fix faulty logic to detect end-of-stream [cjfields]
506 * Bio::AlignIO::stockholm
507 - bug 2796 - fix faulty logic to detect end-of-stream [cjfields]
508 * Bio::Assembly::Tools::ContigSpectrum
509 - function to score contig spectrum [fangly]
510 * Bio::DB::EUtilities
511 - small updates [cjfields]
513 - berkeleydb database now autoindexes wig files and locks correctly
516 - various small updates for stability; tracking changes to LANL
517 database interface [maj]
518 * Bio::DB::SeqFeature (lots of updates and changes)
519 - add Pg, SQLite, and faster BerkeleyDB implementations [lstein, scain]
520 - bug 2835 - patch [Dan Bolser]
521 - bug RT 44535 - patch FeatureFileLoader [Cathy Gresham]
523 - bug 2764 - idtracker() method [cjfields, courtesy Neil Saunders]
524 * Bio::Factory::FTLocationFactory
525 - mailing list bug fix [cjfields]
527 - performance work on column_from_residue_number [hartzell]
528 * Bio::Matrix::IO::phylip
529 - bug 2800 - patch to fix phylip parsing [Wei Zou]
531 - Google Summer of Code project from Chase Miller - parsers for Nexml
532 file format [maj, chmille4]
534 - Make Individual, Population, Marker objects AnnotatableI [maj]
535 - simplify LD code [jason]
537 - deal with empty intersection [jason]
539 - significant overhaul of Bio::Restriction system: complete support for
540 external and non-palindromic cutters. [maj]
542 - CPANPLUS support, no automatic installation [sendu]
544 - allow IO::String (regression fix) [cjfields]
545 - catch unintentional undef values [cjfields]
546 - throw if non-fh is passed to -fh [maj]
547 * Bio::Root::Root/RootI
548 - small debugging and core fixes [cjfields]
550 - bug RT 48813 - fix for Strawberry Perl bug [kmx]
551 * Bio::Root::Utilities
552 - bug 2737 - better warnings [cjfields]
554 - tiling completely refactored, HOWTO added [maj]
555 NOTE : Bio::Search::Hit::* classes do not use this code directly; we
556 will deprecate usage of the older tiling code in the next BioPerl
558 - small fixes [cjfields]
560 - Infernal 1.0 output now parsed [cjfields]
561 - new parser for gmap -f9 output [hartzell]
562 - bug 2852 - fix infinite loop in some output [cjfields]
563 - blastxml output now passes all TODO tests [cjfields]
564 - bug 2346, 2850 - psl and exonerate parsing fixes [rbuels, jhannah, bvecchi, YAPC hackathon]
565 - RT 44782 - GbrowseGFF writer now catches evalues [Allen Day]
566 - bug 2575 - add two columns of additional output to HSPTableWriter [cjfields]
567 * Bio::Seq::LargePrimarySeq
568 - delete tempdirs [cjfields]
569 - bug fixes [rbuels, jhannah, bvecchi, YAPC hackathon]
571 - extract regions based on quality threshold value [Dan Bolser, heikki]
572 - bug 2847 - resolve threshold issue (rbuels, jhannah, bvecchi)
573 * Bio::SeqFeature::Lite
574 - various Bio::DB::SeqFeature-related fixes [lstein]
575 * Bio::SeqFeature::Tools::TypeMapper
576 - additional terms for GenBank to SO map [scain]
577 * Bio::SeqIO::chadoxml
578 - bug 2785 - patch to get this working for bp_seqconvert [cjfields]
580 - support for CDS records [dave_messina, Sylvia]
582 - complete refactoring to handle all FASTQ variants, perform validation,
583 write output. API now conforms with other Bio* parsers and the rest of
584 Bio::SeqIO (e.g. write_seq() creates fastq output, not fasta output).
586 * Bio::SeqIO::genbank
587 - bug 2784 - fix DBSOURCE issue [Phillip Garland]
588 - bug RT 44536 - support for UniProt/UniProtKB tests [cjfields]
589 * Bio::SeqIO::largefasta
590 - parser returns a Bio::Seq::LargePrimarySeq [jhannah]
592 - add option for 'single' and 'multiple'
594 - bug 2881 - fix scf round-tripping [Adam Søgren]
596 - bug 2766, 2810 - copy over tags from features, doc fixes [David
599 - bug 2793 - patch for add_seq index issue [jhannah, maj]
600 - bug 2801 - throw if args are required [cjfields]
601 - bug 2805 - uniq_seq returns SimpleAlign and hash ref of sequence types
602 [Tristan Lefebure, maj]
603 - bug fixes from YAPC hackathon [rbuels, jhannah, bvecchi]
604 - fix POD and add get_SeqFeatures filter [maj]
605 * Bio::Tools::dpAlign
606 - add support for LocatableSeq [ymc]
607 - to be moved to a separate distribution [cjfields, rbuels]
608 * Bio::Tools::EUtilities
609 - fix for two bugs from mail list [Adam Whitney, cjfields]
610 - add generic ItemContainerI interface for containing same methods
613 - fix up code, add more warnings [cjfields]
614 - to be moved to a separate distribution [cjfields, rbuels]
615 * Bio::Tools::Primer3
616 - bug 2862 - fenceposting issue fixed [maj]
617 * Bio::Tools::Run::RemoteBlast
618 - tests for remote RPS-BLAST [mcook]
619 * Bio::Tools::SeqPattern
620 - bug 2844 - backtranslate method [rbuels, jhannah, bvecchi]
621 * Bio::Tools::tRNAscanSE
622 - use 'gene' and 'exon' for proper SO, ensure ID is unique [jason]
624 - bug 2456 - fix reroot_tree(), added create_node_on_branch() [maj]
625 * Bio::Tree::Statistics
626 - several methods for calculating Fitch-based score, internal trait
627 values, statratio(), sum of leaf distances [heikki]
629 - bug 2869 - add docs indicating edge case where nodes can be
630 prematurely garbage-collected [cjfields]
631 - add as_text() function to create Tree as a string in specified format
633 * Bio::Tree::TreeFunctionsI
634 - bug 2877 - fix bug where bootstrap assigned to the wrong node [Tristan
636 * Bio::TreeIO::newick
637 - fix small semicolon issue [cjfields]
639 - update to bp_seqfeature_load for SQLite [lstein]
640 - hivq.pl - commmand-line interface to Bio::DB::HIV [maj]
641 - fastam9_to_table - fix for MPI output [jason]
642 - gccalc - total stats [jason]
644 - POD cleanup re: FEEDBACK section [maj, cjfields]
645 - cleanup or fix dead links [cjfields]
646 - Use of no_* methods (indicating 'number of something') is deprecated
647 in favor of num_* [cjfields]
648 - lots of new tests for the above bugs and refactors [everyone!]
649 - new template for Komodo text editor [cjfields]
652 * Feature/Annotation rollback
653 - Problematic changes introduced prior to the 1.5 release have been
654 rolled back. These changes led to subtle bugs involving operator
655 overloading and interface methods.
656 - Behavior is very similar to that for BioPerl 1.4, with tag values
657 being stored generically as simple scalars. Results in a modest
660 - Split into a separate distribution on CPAN, primarily so development
661 isn't reliant on a complete BioPerl release.
662 - Bio::Graphics::Pictogram has been renamed to Bio::Draw::Pictogram but
663 is only available via Subversion (via bioperl-live main trunk)
665 - Common test bed for all BioPerl modules
667 - Common Module::Build-based subclass for all BioPerl modules
668 * Bio::DB::EUtilities
669 - Complete refactoring to split up parsing (Bio::Tools::EUtilities),
670 parameter handling (Bio::Tools::EUtilities::EUtilParameters),
671 and user agent request posting and retrieval
672 * Test implementation and reorganization
673 - Tests have been reorganized into groups based on classes or use
675 - Automated test coverage is now online:
676 http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Test_Coverage
677 - After this release, untested modules will be moved into a
678 separate developer distribution until tests can be derived.
679 Also, new modules to be added are expected to have a test suite
680 and adequate test coverage.
682 1.5.2 Developer release
684 Full details of changes since 1.5.1 are available online at:
685 http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Change_log
686 The following represents a brief overview of the most important changes.
689 - Overhaul. Brand new system fully allows markers to have multiple
690 positions on multiple maps, and to have relative positions. Should be
694 - This module and all the modules in the Taxonomy directory now
695 deprecated in favour of Bio::Taxon and Bio::Tree::Tree
700 * get_Taxonomy_Node() eventually to be deprecated, renamed get_taxon().
702 * New methods ancestor(), each_Descendent() and _handle_internal_id().
704 * Allows for different database modules to create Bio::Taxon objects
705 with the same internal id when the same taxon is requested from each.
708 * get_Children_Taxids() is deprecated, superceded by each_Descendent().
710 * No longer includes the fake root node 'root'; there are multiple roots
711 now (10239, 12884, 12908, 29384 and 131567). Consistent with entrez.pm
714 * get_node() has new option -full
716 * Caches data retrieved from website
719 - Now a Bio::Taxon. Carries out the species name -> specific name munging
720 that Bio::DB::Taxonomy modules and SeqIO modules used to do, for
721 backward compatability in species() method.
723 o Bio::Search and Bio::SearchIO
724 - Overhaul. The existing system has been sped up via some minor changes
725 (mostly gain-of-function to the API). Bio::PullParserI is introduced
726 as a potential eventual replacment for the existing system, though as
727 yet only a Hmmpfam parser exists written using it.
730 1.5.1 Developer release
732 o Major problem with how Annotations were written out with
733 Bio::Seq is fixed by reverting to old behavior for
734 Bio::Annotation objects.
739 * bug #1871; REFLOOP' parsing loop, I changed the pattern to
740 expect at l east 9 spaces at the beginning of a line to
741 indicate line wrapping.
743 * Treat multi-line SOURCE sections correctly, this defect broke
744 both common_name() and classification()
746 * parse swissprot fields in genpept file
748 * parse WGS genbank records
751 * Changed regexp for ID line. The capturing parentheses are
752 the same, the difference is an optional repeated-not-semi-
753 colon expression following the captured \S+. This means the
754 regexp works when the division looks like /PRO;/ or when the
755 division looks like /ANG ;/ - the latter is from EMBL
758 * fix ID line parsing: the molecule string can have spaces in
759 it. Like: "genomic DNA"
761 - swiss.pm: bugs #1727, #1734
764 * Added parser for entrezgene ASN1 (text format) files.
765 Uses Bio::ASN1::EntrezGene as a low level parser (get it from CPAN)
769 - maf.pm coordinate problem fixed
771 o Bio::Taxonomy and Bio::DB::Taxonomy
773 - Parse NCBI XML now so that nearly all the taxonomy up-and-down
774 can be done via Web without downloading all the sequence.
776 o Bio::Tools::Run::RemoteBlast supports more options and complies
777 to changes to the NCBI interface. It is reccomended that you
778 retrieve the data in XML instead of plain-text BLAST report to
779 insure proper parsing and retrieval of all information as NCBI
780 fully expects to change things in the future.
782 o Bio::Tree and Bio::TreeIO
784 - Fixes so that re-rooting a tree works properly
786 - Writing out nhx format from a newick/nexus file will properly output
787 bootstrap information. The use must move the internal node labels over
789 for my $node ( grep { ! $_->is_Leaf } $tree->get_nodes ) {
790 $node->bootstrap($node->id);
793 - Nexus parsing is much more flexible now, does not care about
796 - Cladogram drawing module in Bio::Tree::Draw
798 - Node height and depth now properly calculated
800 - fix tree pruning algorithm so that node with 1 child gets merged
802 o Graphics tweaks. Glyph::xyplot improved. Many other small-medium sized
803 bugs and improvements were added, see Gbrowse mailing list for most of
806 o Bio::DB::GFF partially supports GFF3. See information about
807 gff3_munge flag in scripts/Bio-DB-GFF/bulk_load_gff.pl.
809 o Better location parsing in Bio::Factory::FTLocationFactory -
810 this is part of the engine for parsing EMBL/GenBank feature table
811 locations. Nested join/order-by/complement are allowed now
813 o Bio::PrimarySeqI->translate now takes named parameters
815 o Bio::Tools::Phylo::PAML - parsing RST (ancestral sequence
816 reconstruction) is now supported. Parsing different models and
817 branch specific parametes are now supported.
819 o Bio::Factory::FTLocationFactory - parse hierarchical locations
822 o Bio::Matrix::DistanceMatrix returns arrayrefs instead of arrays
823 for getter/setter functions
827 - blast bug #1739; match scientific notation in score
828 and possible e+ values
830 - blast.pm reads more WU-BLAST parameters and parameters, match
831 a full database pathname,
833 - Handle NCBI WEB and newer BLAST formats specifically
834 (Query|Sbjct:) match in alignment blocks can now be (Query|Sbjct).
836 - psl off-by-one error fixed
838 - exonerate parsing much improved, CIGAR and VULGAR can be parsed
839 and HSPs can be constructed from them.
841 - HSPs query/hit now have a seqdesc field filled out (this was
842 always available via $hit->description and
843 $result->query_description
845 - hmmer.pm can parse -A0 hmmpfam files
847 - Writer::GbrowseGFF more customizeable.
849 o Bio::Tools::Hmmpfam
850 make e-value default score displayed in gff, rather than raw score
851 allow parse of multiple records
854 1.5 Developer release
856 o Bio::Align::DNAStatistics and Bio::Align::ProteinStatistics
857 provide Jukes-Cantor and Kimura pairwise distance methods,
860 o Bio::AlignIO support for "po" format of POA, and "maf";
861 Bio::AlignIO::largemultifasta is a new alternative to
862 Bio::AlignIO::fasta for temporary file-based manipulation of
863 particularly large multiple sequence alignments.
865 o Bio::Assembly::Singlet allows orphan, unassembled sequences to
866 be treated similarly as an assembled contig.
868 o Bio::CodonUsage provides new rare_codon() and probable_codons()
869 methods for identifying particular codons that encode a given
872 o Bio::Coordinate::Utils provides new from_align() method to build
873 a Bio::Coordinate pair directly from a
874 Bio::Align::AlignI-conforming object.
876 o Bio::DB::Biblio::eutils is a class for querying NCBI's Eutils.
877 Send a Pubmed, Pubmed Central, Entrez, or other query to NCBI's
878 web service using standard Pubmed query syntax, and retrieve
881 o Bio::DB::GFF has various sundry bug fixes.
883 o Bio::FeatureIO is a new SeqIO-style subsystem for
884 writing/reading genomic features to/from files. I/O classes
885 exist for BED, GTF (aka GFF v2.5), and GFF v3. Bio::FeatureIO
886 classes only read/write Bio::SeqFeature::Annotated objects.
887 Notably, the GFF v3 class requires features to be typed into the
890 o Bio::Graph namespace contains new modules for manipulation and
891 analysis of protein interaction graphs.
893 o Bio::Graphics has many bug fixes and shiny new glyphs.
895 o Bio::Index::Hmmer and Bio::Index::Qual provide multiple-file
896 indexing for HMMER reports and FASTA qual files, respectively.
898 o Bio::Map::Clone, Bio::Map::Contig, and Bio::Map::FPCMarker are
899 new objects that can be placed within a Bio::Map::MapI-compliant
900 genetic/physical map; Bio::Map::Physical provides a new physical
901 map type; Bio::MapIO::fpc provides finger-printed clone mapping
904 o Bio::Matrix::PSM provide new support for postion-specific
905 (scoring) matrices (e.g. profiles, or "possums").
907 o Bio::Ontology::Ontology and Bio::Ontology::Term objects can now
908 be instantiated without explicitly using Bio::OntologyIO. This
909 is possible through changes to Bio::Ontology::OntologyStore to
910 download ontology files from the web as necessary. Locations of
911 ontology files are hard-coded into
912 Bio::Ontology::DocumentRegistry.
914 o Bio::PopGen includes many new methods and data types for
915 population genetics analyses.
917 o New constructor to Bio::Range, unions(). Given a list of
918 ranges, returns another list of "flattened" ranges --
919 overlapping ranges are merged into a single range with the
920 mininum and maximum coordinates of the entire overlapping group.
922 o Bio::Root::IO now supports -url, in addition to -file and -fh.
923 The new -url argument allows one to specify the network address
924 of a file for input. -url currently only works for GET
925 requests, and thus is read-only.
927 o Bio::SearchIO::hmmer now returns individual Hit objects for each
928 domain alignment (thus containing only one HSP); previously
929 separate alignments would be merged into one hit if the domain
930 involved in the alignments was the same, but this only worked
931 when the repeated domain occured without interruption by any
932 other domain, leading to a confusing mixture of Hit and HSP
935 o Bio::Search::Result::ResultI-compliant report objects now
936 implement the "get_statistics" method to access
937 Bio::Search::StatisticsI objects that encapsulate any
938 statistical parameters associated with the search (e.g. Karlin's
939 lambda for BLAST/FASTA).
941 o Bio::Seq::LargeLocatableSeq combines the functionality already
942 found in Bio::Seq::LargeSeq and Bio::LocatableSeq.
944 o Bio::SeqFeature::Annotated is a replacement for
945 Bio::SeqFeature::Generic. It breaks compliance with the
946 Bio::SeqFeatureI interface because the author was sick of
947 dealing with untyped annotation tags. All
948 Bio::SeqFeature::Annotated annotations are Bio::AnnotationI
949 compliant, and accessible through Bio::Annotation::Collection.
951 o Bio::SeqFeature::Primer implements a Tm() method for primer
952 melting point predictions.
954 o Bio::SeqIO now supports AGAVE, BSML (via SAX), CHAOS-XML,
955 InterProScan-XML, TIGR-XML, and NCBI TinySeq formats.
957 o Bio::Taxonomy::Node now implements the methods necessary for
958 Bio::Species interoperability.
960 o Bio::Tools::CodonTable has new reverse_translate_all() and
961 make_iupac_string() methods.
963 o Bio::Tools::dpAlign now provides sequence profile alignments.
965 o Bio::Tools::GFF now parses GFF version 2.5 (a.k.a. GTF).
967 o Bio::Tools::Fgenesh, Bio::Tools::tRNAscanSE are new report
970 o Bio::Tools::SiRNA includes two new rulesets (Saigo and Tuschl)
971 for designing small inhibitory RNA.
973 o Bio::Tree::DistanceFactory provides NJ and UPGMA tree-building
974 methods based on a distance matrix.
976 o Bio::Tree::Statistics provides an assess_bootstrap() method to
977 calculate bootstrap support values on a guide tree topology,
978 based on provided bootstrap tree topologies.
980 o Bio::TreeIO now supports the Pagel (PAG) tree format.
986 o Improvements to Bio::AlignIO::nexus for parsing TreeBase nexus files
988 o Bio::Graphics will work with gd1 or gd2
991 - hmmer.pm Better hmmpfam parsing, fix bug for small number of alignment outputs
993 - blast.pm Parse multi-line query fields properly
994 - small speed improvements to blasttable.pm and others
996 o Bio::DB::Taxonomy has better support for hierarchy traversal so that
997 Bio::Taxonomy::Node can be as simple as Bio::Species object while still
998 supporting more complex queries
1001 1.4. Stable major release
1003 Since initial 1.2.0, 3000 separate changes have been made to make this release.
1005 o installable scripts
1007 o global module version from Bio::Root:Version
1010 - major improvements; SVG support
1013 - population genetics
1014 - support several population genetics types of questions.
1015 - Tests for statistical neutrality of mutations
1016 (Fu and Li's D/F, Tajima's D) are in Bio::PopGen::Statistics.
1017 Tests of population structure (Wright's F-statistic: Fst) is in
1018 Bio::PopGen::PopStats. Calculating composite linkage
1019 disequilibrium (LD) is available in Bio::PopGen::Statistics as
1021 - Bio::PopGen::IO for reading in prettybase (SeattleSNPs)
1022 and csv (comma delimited formatted) data.
1024 - a directory for implementing population simulations has
1025 been added Bio::PopGen::Simulation and 2 simulations - a
1026 Coalescent and a simple single-locus multi-allele genetic drift
1027 simulation have been provided. This replaces the code in
1028 Bio::Tree::RandomTree which has been deprecated until proper
1029 methods for generating random phylogenetic trees are
1033 - new restrion analysis modules
1035 o Bio::Tools::Analysis
1036 - web based DNA and Protein analysis framework and several
1040 - per residue annotable sequences
1043 - Bio::Matrix::PSM - Position Scoring Matrix
1044 - Bio::Matrix::IO has been added for generalized parsing of
1045 matrix data. Matrix::IO::scoring and Matrix::IO::phylip are
1046 initial implementations for parsing BLOSUM/PAM and Phylip
1047 Distance matricies respectively. A generic matrix
1048 implementation for general use was added in
1049 Bio::Matrix::Generic.
1056 o Bio::Tools::SiRNA, Bio::SeqFeature::SiRNA
1057 - small inhibitory RNA
1059 o Bio::SeqFeature::Tools
1060 - seqFeature mapping tools
1061 - Bio::SeqFeature::Tools::Unflattener.pm
1062 -- deal with mapping GenBank feature collections into
1063 Chado/GFF3 processable feature sets (with SO term mappings)
1065 o Bio::Tools::dpAlign
1066 - pure perl dynamic programming sequence alignment
1069 o new Bio::SearchIO formats
1070 - axt and psl: UCSC formats.
1071 - blasttable: NCBI -m 8 or -m 9 format from blastall
1073 o new Bio::SeqIO formats
1074 - chado, tab, kegg, tigr, game
1075 - important fixes for old modules
1079 o improved Bio::Tools::Genewise
1081 o Bio::SeqIO now can recongnize sequence formats automatically from
1084 o new parsers in Bio::Tools:
1085 Blat, Geneid, Lagan, Mdust, Promoterwise, PrositeScan,
1087 o Bio::DB::Registry bugs fixed
1088 - BerkeleyDB-indexed flat files can be used by the OBDA system
1089 - Multiple seqdatabase.ini locations in OBDA_SEARCH_PATH are all
1090 used by the OBDA system
1092 o several new HOWTOs
1093 - SimpleWebAnalysis, Trees, Feature Annotation, OBDA Access, Flat
1096 o hundreds of new and improved files
1100 o Bio::Tree::AlleleNode has been updated to be a container of
1101 an Bio::PopGen::Individual object for use in the Coalescent simulations.
1106 1.2.3 Stable release update
1107 o Bug #1475 - Fix and add speedup to spliced_seq for remote location
1109 o Bug #1477 - Sel --> Sec abbreviation fixed
1110 o Fix bug #1487 where paring in-between locations when
1111 end < start caused the FTLocationFactory logic to fail.
1112 o Fix bug #1489 which was not dealing with keywords as an
1113 arrayref properly (this is fixed on the main trunk because
1114 keywords returns a string and the array is accessible via
1116 o Bio::Tree::Tree memory leak (bug #1480) fixed
1117 Added a new initialization option -nodelete which
1118 won't try and cleanup the containing nodes if this
1120 o Bug with parsing labeled nodes with Bio::TreeIO::newick fixed
1121 this was only present on the branch for the 1.2.1 and 1.2.2 series
1122 - Also merged main trunk changes to the branch which make
1123 newick -> nhx round tripping more effective (storing branch length
1124 and bootstrap values in same locate for NodeNHX and Node
1125 implementations.) Fixes to TreeIO parsing for labeled internal
1126 also required small changes to TreeIO::nhx. Improved
1127 tests for this module as well.
1129 - Fixed bugs in BLAST parsing which couldn't parse NCBI
1130 gapped blast properly (was losing hit significance values due to
1131 the extra unexpeted column).
1132 - Parsing of blastcl3 (netblast from NCBI) now can handle case of
1133 integer overflow (# of letters in nt seq dbs is > MAX_INT)
1134 although doesn't try to correct it - will get the negative
1135 number for you. Added a test for this as well.
1136 - Fixed HMMER parsing bug which prevented parsing when a hmmpfam report
1137 has no top-level family classification scores but does have scores and
1138 alignments for individual domains.
1139 - Parsing FASTA reports where ungapped percent ID is < 10 and the
1140 regular expression to match the line was missing the possibility of
1141 an extra space. This is rare, which is why we probably did not
1143 - BLAST parsing picks up more of the statistics/parameter fields
1144 at the bottom of reports. Still not fully complete.
1145 - SearchIO::Writer::HTMLResultWriter and TextResultWriter
1146 were fixed to include many improvements and added flexiblity
1147 in outputting the files. Bug #1495 was also fixed in the process.
1149 - Update for GFF3 compatibility.
1150 - Added scripts for importing from UCSC and GenBank.
1151 - Added a 1.2003 version number.
1154 - Added a 1.2003 version number.
1155 o SeqIO::swiss Bug #1504 fixed with swiss writing which was not
1156 properly writing keywords out.
1157 o Bio::SeqIO::genbank
1158 - Fixed bug/enhancement #1513 where dates of
1159 the form D-MMM-YYYY were not parsed. Even though this is
1160 invalid format we can handle it - and also cleanup the date
1161 string so it is properly formatted.
1162 - Bug/enhancement #1517 fixed so that SEGMENT line can be parsed
1163 and written with Genbank format. Similarly bug #1515 is fixed to
1164 parse in the ORIGIN text.
1165 o Bio::SeqIO::fasta, a new method called preferred_id_type allows you
1166 to specify the ID type, one of (accession accession.version
1167 display primary). See Bio::SeqIO::preferred_id_type method
1168 documentation for more information.
1169 o Unigene parsing updated to handle file format changes by NCBI
1171 1.2.2 Stable release update
1173 o A series of bug fixes of the Bio::OntologyIO dagflat-related parsers:
1174 - auto-discover ontology name
1175 - bug in parsing relationships when certain characters are in the term
1176 - fixed hard-coded prefix for term identifiers
1177 - various smaller issues
1179 o Fixed bug in Bio::Annotation::OntologyTerm of not implementing all
1180 of Bio::Ontology::TermI
1182 o brought the OBDA Registry code up to latest specs
1186 - accession number retrieval fixed
1188 o Bio::SearchIO::blast - fix bug #1443 (missing last hits), parse megablast
1190 o Bio::SearchIO::Writer::(HTML|Text)ResultWriter fix bugs #1458,
1191 #1459 which now properly report alignment start/end info
1192 for translated BLAST/FASTA searches.
1194 o Bio::TreeIO::newick can parse labeled internal nodes
1196 o Bio::Tools::BPbl2seq can properly report strand info for HSPs
1197 for BLASTX if if you provide -report_type => 'BLASTX' when
1198 initializing a BPbl2seq object. Bioperl 1.3 will have better
1199 support for bl2seq in the SearchIO system.
1201 o Bio::Root::IO support a -noclose boolean flag which will not
1202 close a filehandle upon object cleanup - useful when sharing
1203 a filehandle among objects. Additionally code added s.t.
1204 STDOUT/STDIN/STDERR will never be closed by Root::IO cleanup.
1206 o Bio::Tools::Genemark bug #1435 fixed which was missing last prediction
1208 o Bio::SeqIO::genbank
1209 - bug #1456 fixed which generated extra sequence lines
1210 - write moltype correctly for genpept
1212 1.2.1 Stable release update
1214 o Inclusion of WrapperBase, a needed component for StandAloneBlast
1216 o Addition from main trunk of Ontology objects, principly to allow
1217 BioSQL releases against 1.2.1
1219 o Fixes and cleanup of Bio::Coordinate modules
1221 o A fix to Bio::Index::EMBL allowing retrieval of entries using
1222 the primary accession number
1224 o Other bug fixes, including bpindex GenBank fix
1226 o Bio::SeqIO::genbank bug #1389 fixed
1228 1.2 Stable major release
1230 o More functionality added to Bio::Perl, the newbie module
1232 o Bug fixes in Bio::TreeIO::newick fixes bug introduced in 1.0.2
1233 Support for New Hampshire Extended (NHX) format parsing.
1235 o Bio::Tools added support for parsing Genomewise, Pseudowise, Est2Genome,
1236 Tmhmm, SignalP, Seg, RepeatMasker, FootPrinter, and a lightweight
1239 o New ontology parsing Bio::Ontology
1241 o Bug fixes in Bio::SearchIO for HMMer parsing, support for
1242 multi-report (mlib) fasta reports, support for waba and exonerate.
1244 o Bio::ClusterIO for parsing Unigene clusters
1246 o Bio::Assembly added for representing phrap and ace assembly clusters.
1248 o Rudimentary support for writing Chado XML (see
1249 GMOD project: www.gmod.org for more information)
1251 o Bio::Coordinate for mapping between different coordinate systems such
1252 as protein -> cDNA -> Exon -> DNA and back. Useful for mapping
1253 features into different coordinate systems.
1255 o Bio::DB::GenBank/Bio::DB::GenPept now support Entrez queries
1256 with the get_Stream_by_query method and supports the latest
1257 NCBI eutils interface.
1259 o Bugs fixed in Bio::SeqFeature::Collection an in-memory fast
1260 object for extracting subsets of features : currently only
1261 supports extraction by location.
1263 1.1.1 Developer release
1265 o Deprecated modules are now listed in the DEPRECATED file
1267 o New HowTo documents located in doc/howto describing
1268 a domain of Bioperl.
1270 o Note that bugs are now stored at redmine.open-bio.org/projects/bioperl/
1271 and all old bugs are searchable through the bugzilla interface.
1273 o Several reported bugs in Bio::Tools::Sigcleave and Bio::SimpleAlign
1274 have been addressed.
1276 o Support for Genewise parsing in Bio::Tools::Genewise
1278 o Start of Ontology framework with Bio::Ontology
1280 o Speedup to the Bio::Root::Root object method _rearrange.
1281 A global _load_module method was implemented to simplify the
1282 dynamic loading of modules ala Bio::SeqIO::genbank. This
1283 method is now used by all the XXIO (AlignIO,TreeIO,SearchIO,SeqIO,
1286 o Several performance improvements to sequence parsing in Bio::SeqIO.
1287 Attempt to speedup by reducing object creation overhead.
1289 o Bio::DB::GenBank and Bio::DB::GenPept use the NCBI's approved
1290 method for sequence retrieval with their E-utils CGI scripts.
1291 More work to support Entrez queries to their fullest is planned
1294 o Numerous fixes to Bio::SearchIO and sequence parsing (swissprot)
1296 1.1 Developer release
1298 o Bio::Tools::Run has been broken off into a new pkg bioperl-run,
1299 this separation removes some of the complexity in our test suite
1300 and separates the core modules in bioperl from those that need
1301 external programs to run.
1303 o With latest ExtUtils::MakeMaker module installed SGI/IRIX should
1304 not run into trouble running the makefile
1306 o Bio::Location and Bio::SeqIO::FTHelper are fixed to properly
1307 read,create,and write locations for grouped/split locations
1308 (like mRNA features on genomic sequence).
1310 o Bio::Tools::Phlyo added for wrappers for parsing Molphy (protml)
1311 and PAML (codeml,aaml, etc) parsing.
1313 o Bio::Tree:: objects expanded to handle testing monophyly,
1314 paraphyly, least common ancestor, etc.
1316 o Bio::Coordinate for mapping locations from different coordinate spaces
1318 o Bio::SearchIO::waba added for parsing WABA, Bio::SearchIO::hmmer
1319 added for parsing hmmpfam and hmmsearch output.
1321 o Bio::SearchIO::Writer::TextResultWriter for outputting
1322 a pseudo-blast textfile format
1325 1.0.2 Bug fix release
1327 o Note: The modules Bio::DB::GenBank and Bio::DB::GenPept provided
1328 in this release will not work after December 2002 when NCBI
1329 shuts off the old Entrez cgi scripts. We have already fixed
1330 on our main development branch and the functionality will be
1331 available in the next stable bioperl release (1.2) slated for
1334 o Numerous parsing bugs in Bio::SearchIO::fasta found through
1335 testset by Robin Emig. These were fixed as was the get_aln
1336 method in Bio::Search::HSP::GenericHSP to handle the extra
1337 context sequence that is provided with a FastA alignment.
1339 o Migrating differences between Bio::Search::XX::BlastXX to
1340 Bio::Search::XX::GenericXX objects. This included mechanism
1341 to retrieve whole list of HSPs from Hits and whole list of Hits from
1342 Results in addition to the current next_XX iterator methods that
1343 are available. Added seq_inds() method to GenericHSP which identifies
1344 indexes in the query or hit sequences where conserved,identical,gaps,
1345 or mismatch residues are located (adapted from Steve Chervitz's
1346 implementation in BlastHSP).
1348 o Bio::DB::GFF bugs fixed and are necessary for latest GBrowse release.
1349 Bio::DB::GFF::RelSegment is now Bio::SeqI compliant.
1351 o Bio::Graphics glyph set improved and extended for GBrowse release
1353 o Bio::Tree::Tree get_nodes implementation improvement thanks
1354 to Howard Ross notice performance problem when writing out
1357 o Bio::Location::Fuzzy::new named parameter -loc_type became
1358 -location_type, Bio::Location::Simple::new named parameter
1359 -seqid becamse -seq_id.
1361 o Fixed major Bio::AlignIO::emboss parsing bug on needle output,
1362 was mis-detecting that gaps should be placed at the beginning of
1363 the alignment when the best alignment starts internally in the
1366 1.0.1 Bug fix release
1368 o Minor bug fixes to Bio::DB:GFF. Glyph sets improved.
1370 o Parser fixes in SearchIO blast, fasta for more complete WU BLAST
1371 and mixed (3.3 - 3.4) versions of FASTA.
1373 o Small API change to add methods for completeness across
1374 implementations of Bio::Search objects. These new methods
1375 in the interface are implemented by the GenericXX object as well
1376 as the BlastXX objects.
1377 * Bio::Search::Result::ResultI
1378 - hits() method returns list of all Hits (next_hit is an
1381 * Bio::Search::Hit::HitI
1382 - hsps() method returns list of all HSPs (next_hsp is an
1385 o The Bio::SearchIO::Writer classes have been fixed to handle results
1386 created from either psiblast (Search::BlastXX objects) or
1387 blast|fasta|blastxml objects (Search::GenericXX objects). More work
1388 has to be done here to make it work properly and will nee major
1391 o Bugs in Bio::Tools::HMMER fixed, including
1392 * #1178 - Root::IO destructor wasn't being called
1393 * #1034 - filter_on_cutoff now behaves properly
1395 o Bio::SeqFeature::Computation initialization args fixed and
1398 o Tests are somewhat cleaner, flat.t now properly cleans up after itsself,
1400 o Updated FAQ with more example based answers to typical questions
1402 o Bug #1202 was fixed which would improperly join together qual values
1403 parsed by Bio::SeqIO::qual when a trailing space was not present before
1406 1.0.0 Major Stable Release
1408 This represents a major release of bioperl with significant
1409 improvements over the 0.7.x series of releases.
1411 o Bio::Tools::Blast is officially deprecated. Please see
1412 Bio::SearchIO for BLAST and FastA parsing.
1414 o The methods trunc() and subseq() in Bio::PrimarySeqI now accepts
1415 Bio::LocationI objects as well as start/end.
1417 o Bio::Biblio contains modules for Bibliographic data.
1418 Bio::DB::Biblio contains the query modules. Additionally one can
1419 parse medlinexml from the ebi bibliographic query service (BQS)
1420 system and Pubmed xml from NCBI. See Martin Senger's
1421 documentation in Bio::Biblio for more information.
1423 o Bio::DB::Registry is a sequence database registry part of
1424 Open Bioinformatics Database Access. See
1425 http://obda.open-bio.org for more information.
1427 o File-based and In-Memory Sequence caching is provided by
1428 Bio::DB::InMemoryCache and Bio::DB::FileCache which acts like a
1431 o Bio::Graphics for rendering sequences as PNG,JPG, or GIFs has
1432 been added by Lincoln Stein.
1434 o XEMBL SOAP service access in provided in Bio::DB::XEMBL.
1436 o A FAQ has been started and is included in the release to provide
1437 a starting point for frequent questions and issues.
1439 0.9.3 Developer's release
1441 o Event based parsing system improved (SearchIO). With parsers for
1442 XML Blast (blastxml), Text Blast (blast), and FASTA results (fasta).
1443 Additionally a lazy parsing system for text and html blast reports was
1444 added and is called psiblast (name subject to change in future releases).
1446 o Bio::Search objects improved and standardized with associated Interfaces
1447 written. The concept of a search "Hit" was standardized to be called
1448 "hit" consistently and the use of "subject" was deprecated in all active
1451 o Bio::Structure added (since 0.9.1) for Protein structure objects
1452 and PDB parser to retrieve and write these structures from data files.
1454 o Several important Bio::DB::GFF bug fixes for handling features that
1455 are mapped to multiple reference points. Updated mysql adaptor
1456 so as to be able to store large (>100 megabase) chunks of DNA into
1457 Bio::DB::GFF databases.
1459 0.9.2 Developer's release
1461 o Bio::Search and Bio::SearchIO system introduced for event based
1462 parsing of Blast,Fasta reports Bio::SearchIO supports ncbi BLAST
1463 in text and XML and FASTA reports in standard output format.
1465 o Bio::Tree and Bio::TreeIO for phylogenetic trees. A Random tree
1466 generator is included in Bio::TreeIO::RandomTrees and a
1467 statistics module for evaluating.
1469 o Bio::DB::GFF, Lincoln Stein's GFF database suitable as a DB
1470 server for DAS servers.
1472 o Bio::Tools::BPlite is provides more robust parsing of BLAST
1473 files. The entire BPlite system migrated to using Bio::Root::IO
1474 for the data stream.
1476 o Bio::Tools::Alignment for Consed and sequence Trimming
1479 o Bio::Structure for Protein structure information and parsing
1481 o Bio::DB::GenBank/Bio::DB::GenPept updated to new NCBI Entrez
1482 cgi-bin entry point which should be more reliable.
1484 o Bio::Map and Bio::MapIO for biological map navigation and a
1485 framework afor parsing them in. Only preliminary work here.
1487 o Interface for executing EMBOSS programs locally in Bio::Factory::EMBOSS
1488 Future work will integrate Pise and allow submission of analysis on
1491 o Bio::AnnotationCollectionI and Bio::Annotation::Collection
1492 introduced as new objects for handling Sequence Annotation
1493 information (dblinks, references, etc) and is more robust that
1496 o Bio::Tools::FASTAParser introduced.
1498 o Scripts from the bioperl script submission project and new
1499 scripts from bioperl authors are included in "scripts" directory.
1501 o Factory objects and interfaces are being introduced and are more
1504 o Bio::Root::Root introduced as the base object while
1505 Bio::Root::RootI is now simply an interface.
1507 o Bio::DB::RefSeq provides database access to copy of the NCBI
1508 RefSeq database using the EBI dbfetch script.
1510 0.9.0 Developer's release
1512 o perl version at least 5.005 is now required instead of perl 5.004
1514 o Bio::Tools::Run::RemoteBlast is available for running remote
1517 o Bio::Tools::BPbl2seq was fixed to handle multiple HSPs.
1519 o Bio::SeqFeature::GeneStructure migrated to Bio::SeqFeature::Gene.
1520 Also added are related modules UTR3, UTR5, Exon, Intron,
1521 Promotor, PolyA and Transcript.
1523 o Speedup of translate method in PrimarySeq
1525 o Bio::SimpleAlign has new methods: location_from_column(), slice(),
1526 select(), dot(), get_seq_by_pos(), column_from_residue_number()
1528 o Various fixes to Variation toolkit
1530 o Bio::DB::EMBL provides database access to EMBL sequence data.
1531 Bio::DB::Universal provides a central way to point to indexes
1532 and dbs in a single interface.
1534 o Bio::DB::GFF - a database suitable for running DAS servers locally.
1536 o Bio::Factory::EMBOSS is still in design phase as is
1537 Bio::Factory::ApplicationFactoryI
1539 o Dia models for bioperl design are provided in the models/ directory
1541 0.7.2 Bug fix release
1543 o documentation fixes in many modules - SYNOPSIS code verified
1544 to be runnable in many (but not all modules)
1546 o corrected MANIFEST file from 0.7.1 release
1548 o Bug fix in Bio::SeqIO::FTHelper to properly handle
1551 o Bio::SeqIO::genbank
1552 * Correct parsing and writing of genbank format with protein data
1553 * moltype and molecule separation
1555 o Bio::SeqIO::largefasta fix to avoid inifinite loops
1557 o Bio::SimpleAlign fixed to correctly handle consensus
1558 sequence calculation
1560 o Bio::Tools::HMMER supports hmmer 2.2g
1562 o Bio::Tools::BPlite to support report type specific parsing. Most
1563 major changes are not on the 0.7 branch.
1565 o Bio::Tools::Run::StandAloneBlast exists_blast() fixed and works
1568 o Bio::Variation::AAChange/RNAChange corrected labels and mutated alleles
1569 in several types of mutations:
1570 1.) AA level: deletion, complex
1571 2.) AA level: complex, inframe
1572 3.) RNA level: silent
1574 o BPbl2seq parsing of empty reports will not die, but will return
1575 a valid, empty, Bio::SeqFeature::SimilarityFeature for
1576 $report->query() and $report->subject() methods. So an easy
1577 way to test if report was empty is to see if
1578 $report->query->seqname is undefined.
1580 0.7.1 Bug fix release
1582 o Better parsing of genbank/EMBL files especially fixing bugs
1583 related to Feature table parsing and locations on remote
1584 sequences. Additionally, species name parsing was better.
1586 o Bio::SeqIO::genbank can parse now NCBI produced genbank database
1587 which include a number of header lines.
1589 o More strict genbank and EMBL format writing (corrected number of
1590 spaces where appropriate).
1592 o Bio::Tools::BPlite can better parse BLASTX reports - see BUGS
1593 for related BPlite BUGS that are unresolved in this release.
1595 o Bio::DB::GenBank, Bio::DB::GenPept have less problems
1596 downloading sequences from NCBI via HTTP. Bio::DB::SwissProt can
1597 use expasy mirrors or EBI dbfetch cgi-script.
1599 o A moderate number of documentation improvements were made as
1600 well to provide a better code synopsis in each module.
1603 0.7 Large number of changes, including refactoring of the
1604 Object system, new parsers, new functionality and
1605 all round better system. Highlights are:
1608 o Refactored root of inheritance: moved to a lightweight Bio::Root::RootI;
1609 Bio::Root::IO for I/O and file/handle capabilities.
1611 o Imported BPlite modules from Ian Korf for BLAST
1612 parsing. This is considered the supported BLAST parser;
1613 Bio::Tools::Blast.pm will eventually phase out due to lack of support.
1615 o Improved Sequence Feature model. Added complete location
1616 modelling (with fuzzy and compound locations). See
1617 Bio::LocationI and the modules under Bio/Location. Added
1618 support in Genbank/EMBL format parsing to completely parse
1619 feature tables for complex locations.
1621 o Moved special support for databanks etc to specialized modules under
1622 Bio/Seq/. One of these supports very large sequences through
1623 a temporary file as a backend.
1625 o Explicit Gene, Transcript and Exon SeqFeature objects, supporting
1626 CDS retrieval and exon shuffling.
1628 o More parsers: Sim4, Genscan, MZEF, ESTScan, BPbl2seq, GFF
1630 o Refactored Bio/DB/GenBank+GenPept. There is now also DB/SwissProt and
1631 DB/GDB (the latter has platform-specific limitations).
1633 o New analysis parser framework for HT sequence annotation (see
1634 Bio::SeqAnalysisParserI and Bio::Factory::SeqAnalysisParserFactory)
1636 o New Alignment IO framework
1638 o New Index modules (Swissprot)
1640 o New modules for running Blast within perl
1641 (Bio::Tools::Run::StandAloneBlast). Added modules for running
1642 Multiple Sequence Alignment tools ClustalW and TCoffee
1643 (Bio::Tools::Run::Alignment).
1645 o New Cookbook-style tutorial (see bptutorial.pl). Improved
1646 documentation across the package.
1648 o Much improved cross platform support. Many known incompatibilities
1649 have been fixed; however, NT and Mac do not work across the entire
1650 setup (see PLATFORMS).
1652 o Many bug fixes, code restructuring, etc. Overall stability and
1653 maintainability benefit a lot.
1655 o A total of 957 automatic tests
1660 There are very few functionality changes but a large
1661 number of software improvements/bug fixes across the package.
1663 o The EMBL/GenBank parsing are improved.
1665 o The Swissprot reading is improved. Swissprot writing
1666 is disabled as it doesn't work at all. This needs to
1667 wait for 0.7 release
1669 o BLAST reports with no hits are correctly parsed.
1671 o Several other bugs of the BLAST parser (regular expressions, ...)
1674 o Old syntax calls have been replaced with more modern syntax
1676 o Modules that did not work at all, in particular the Sim4
1677 set have been removed
1679 o Bio::SeqFeature::Generic and Bio::SeqFeature::FeaturePair
1680 have improved compliance with interface specs and documentation
1682 o Mailing list documentation updated throughout the distribution
1684 o Most minor bug fixes have happened.
1686 o The scripts in /examples now work and have the modern syntax
1687 rather than the deprecated syntax
1690 0.6.1 Sun April 2 2000
1692 o Sequences can have Sequence Features attached to them
1693 - The sequence features can be read from or written to
1694 EMBL and GenBank style flat files
1696 o Objects for Annotation, including References (but not
1697 full medline abstracts), Database links and Comments are
1700 o A Species object to represent nodes on a taxonomy tree
1703 o The ability to parse HMMER and Sim4 output has been added
1705 o The Blast parsing has been improved, with better PSI-BLAST
1706 support and better overall behaviour.
1708 o Flat file indexed databases provide both random access
1709 and sequential access to their component sequences.
1711 o A CodonTable object has been written with all known
1712 CodonTables accessible.
1714 o A number of new lightweight analysis tools have been
1715 added, such as molecular weight determination.
1717 The 0.6 release also has improved software engineering
1719 o The sequence objects have been rewritten, providing more
1720 maintainable and easier to implement objects. These
1721 objects are backwardly compatible with the 0.05.1 objects
1723 o Many objects are defined in terms of interfaces and then
1724 a Perl implementation has been provided. The interfaces
1725 are found in the 'I' files (module names ending in 'I').
1727 This means that it is possible to wrap C/CORBA/SQL access
1728 as true "bioperl" objects, compatible with the rest of
1731 o The SeqIO system has been overhauled to provide better
1732 processing and perl-like automatic interpretation of <>
1735 o Many more tests have been added (a total of 172 automatic
1736 tests are now run before release).
1740 0.05.1 Tue Jun 29 05:30:44 1999
1741 - Central distribution now requires Perl 5.004. This was
1742 done to get around 5.003-based problems in Bio/Index/*
1744 - Various bug fixes in the Bio::Tools::Blast modules
1745 including better exception handling and PSI-Blast
1746 support. See Bio/Tools/Blast/CHANGES for more.
1747 - Fixed the Parse mechanism in Seq.pm to use readseq.
1748 Follow the instructions in README for how to install
1749 it (basically, you have to edit Parse.pm).
1750 - Improved documentation of Seq.pm, indicating where
1751 objects are returned and where strings are returned.
1752 - Fixed uninitialized warnings in Bio::Root::Object.pm
1753 and Bio::Tools::SeqPattern.pm.
1754 - Bug fixes for PR#s: 30,31,33-35,41,42,44,45,47-50,52.
1756 0.05 Sun Apr 25 01:14:11 1999
1757 - Bio::Tools::Blast modules have less memory problems
1758 and faster parsing. Webblast uses LWP and supports
1759 more functionality. See Bio/Tools/Blast/CHANGES for more.
1760 - The Bio::SeqIO system has been started, moving the
1761 sequence reformatting code out of the sequence object
1762 - The Bio::Index:: system has been started, providing
1763 generic index capabilities and specifically works for
1764 Fasta formatted databases and EMBL .dat formatted
1766 - The Bio::DB:: system started, providing access to
1767 databases, both via flat file + index (see above) and
1769 - The scripts/ directory, where industrial strength scripts
1770 are put has been started.
1771 - Many changes - a better distribution all round.
1773 0.04.4 Wed Feb 17 02:20:13 1999
1774 - Bug fixes in the Bio::Tools::Blast modules and postclient.pl
1775 (see Bio::Tools::Blast::CHANGES).
1776 - Fixed a bug in Bio::Tools::Fasta::num_seqs().
1777 - Beefed up the t/Fasta.t test script.
1778 - Small fix in Bio::Seq::type() (now always returns a string).
1779 - Changed Bio::Root::Utilities::get_newline_char() to
1780 get_newline() since it could return more than one char.
1781 - Added $NEWLINE and $TIMEOUT_SECS to Bio::Root::Global.
1782 - Changed default timeout to 20 seconds (was 3).
1783 - Moved lengthy modification notes to the bottom of some files.
1784 - Fixed SimpleAlign write_fasta bug.
1785 - Beefed up SimpleAlign.t test
1787 0.04.3 Thu Feb 4 07:48:53 1999
1788 - Bio::Root::Object.pm and Global.pm now detect when
1789 script is run as a CGI and suppress output that is only
1790 appropriate when running interactively.
1791 - Bio::Root::Err::_set_context() adds name of script ($0).
1792 - Added comments in Bio::Tools::WWW.pm and Bio::Root::Utilities.pm
1793 regarding the use of the static objects via the qw(:obj) tag.
1794 - Fixed the ambiguous reverse calls in Seq.pm and UnivAln.pm to
1795 CORE::reverse, avoiding Perl warnings.
1796 - Bug fixes in Bio::Tools::Blast modules (version 0.074) and
1797 example scripts (see Bio::Tools::Blast::CHANGES).
1798 - examples/seq/seqtools.pl no longer always warns about using
1799 -prot or -nucl command-line arguments; only when using the
1801 - Methods added to Bio::Root::Utilities: create_filehandle(),
1802 get_newline_char(), and taste_file() to generalize filehandle
1803 creation and autodetect newline characters in files/streams
1804 (see bug report #19).
1805 - Bio::Root::IOManager::read() now handles timeouts and uses
1806 Utilities::create_filehandle().
1807 - Bio::Tools::Fasta.pm uses Utilities::get_newline_char() instead
1808 of hardwiring in "\n".
1809 - Bug fixes in the Bio::SimpleAlign and Bio::Tools::pSW
1811 0.04.2 Wed Dec 30 02:27:36 1998
1812 - Bug fixes in Bio::Tools::Blast modules, version 0.073
1813 (see Bio::Tools::Blast::CHANGES).
1814 - Changed reverse calls in Bio/Seq.pm and Bio/UnivAln.pm
1815 to CORE::reverse (prevents ambiguous warnings with 5.005).
1816 - Appending '.tmp.bioperl' to temporary files created by
1817 Bio::Root::Utilities::compress() or uncompress() to
1818 make it easy to identify & cleanup these files as needed.
1819 - Developers: Created CVS branch release-0-04-bug from
1820 release-0-04-1. Before making bug fixes to the 0.04.1 release,
1821 be sure to cvs checkout this branch into a clean area.
1823 0.04.1 Wed Dec 16 05:39:15 1998
1824 - Bug fixes in Bio::Tools::Blast modules, version 0.072
1825 (see Bio::Tools::Blast::CHANGES).
1826 - Compile/SW/Makefile.PL now removes *.o and *.a files
1829 0.04 Tue Dec 8 07:49:19 1998
1830 - Lots of new modules added including:
1831 * Ewan Birney's Bio::SimpleAlign.pm, Bio::Tools::AlignFactory.pm,
1832 and Bio/Compile directory containing XS-linked C code for
1833 creating Smith-Waterman sequence alignments from within Perl.
1834 * Steve Chervitz's Blast distribution has been incorporated.
1835 * Georg Fuellen's Bio::UnivAln.pm for multiple alignment objects.
1836 - Bio/examples directory for demo scripts for all included modules.
1837 - Bio/t directory containing test suit for all included modules.
1838 - For changes specific to the Blast-related modules prior to
1839 incorporation in this central distribution, see the CHANGES
1840 file in the Bio/Tools/Blast directory.
1842 0.01 Tue Sep 8 14:23:22 1998
1843 - original version from central CVS tree; created by h2xs 1.18