Archive for the ‘BioJava’ Category

Server downtime announcement

Saturday, August 30th, 2003

Hi Everyone, Apologies for the mass cross-posting but this email is about server and IP changes that will affect all of our projects and servers. Simply put -- Wyeth, the company that provides us with our hosting and wonderful T3 connection to the internet is cutting their internet connection circuits over from ...

‘biojava in anger’ translated to French and Japanese

Sunday, July 27th, 2003

The "Biojava in Anger: A Tutorial and Recipe Book for Those in a Hurry" posted online at http://www.biojava.org/docs/bj_in_anger/index.htm has been translated into French and Japanese

Montreal BioJava Bootcamp Announced

Friday, June 27th, 2003

BioneQ, the Quebec Bioinformatics Network, is organizing the first North American BioJava Bootcamp from August 18th to 22nd. We have invited Matthew Pocock to come to Montreal to present the material that has been presented to the European Bootcamps for quite some time now. On the agenda (preliminary): -Sequence I/O and manipulations; -BLAST and FASTA parsing; -Using ...

BioJava 1.3 Released

Wednesday, June 18th, 2003

Thomas Down writes: After a long series of pre-releases (and many bug fixes), I've just finished building BioJava 1.30. Source, binaries, and javadocs can all be found at: http://www.biojava.org/download/ As with the pre-releases, separate binaries are available for java platform releases 1.3 and 1.4. The 1.4 releases include some extra features which depend on jdk1.4 ...

Chromatogram viewing with Java

Tuesday, June 17th, 2003

Rhett Sutphin provides a mini-primer and some example code that shows how to view Chromatogram files with java. His full posting can be read here: http://pw600a.bioperl.org/pipermail/biojava-l/2003-June/003896.html

The Open Biological Database Access (OBDA) introduction for BioPerl

Thursday, June 12th, 2003

Do you need to access sequences from multiple places? Would you like to easily retrieve your own local sequences from indexed flat files, all other sequences on species X from department wide raletional database and the rest from global internet servers? The Open Biological Database Access (OBDA) System was designed so that one could use ...

BioJava tutorial updated

Thursday, June 5th, 2003

Mark writes: The tutorial site BioJava in Anger has been updated so the code examples reflect the new APIs in the upcomming BioJava 1.3 release. Take a peek at http://bioconf.otago.ac.nz/biojava

3 new biojava tutorial entries

Wednesday, February 26th, 2003

Mark has updated his "Biojava in Anger" website to add three more tutorials. One on OrderNDistributions another on WeightMatrices and one on Profile HMMs. The website URL is http://bioconf.otago.ac.nz/biojava/

biojava in the news

Monday, January 27th, 2003

Mark reports: Just noticed a little snippit about biojava in the latest issue of the scientist http://www.the-scientist.com/yr2003/jan/labcon_030127.html (free registration required to view the article)

biojava snapshot 1.3pre1 available

Monday, January 13th, 2003

Thomas Down reports: We've had a number of requests recently for a more recent snapshot of the biojava-live code, so I've just put together a biojava-1.3pre1 release. Get source, binaries, and javadocs from: http://www.biojava.org/download/ This isn't absolutely set in stone yet, but should give a reasonable indication of what the forthcoming ...