BioRuby

Four months ago BioRuby 1.0.0 has been released. You can download the tar.gz file here and here you can view changelog list.

BioRuby is one of the newest bioinformatic programming languages and this project aims to implement an integrated environment for bioinformatics with a Ruby language library and with a powerful interactive shell.

BioRuby currently allows you to work with sequences for several task as traslation, splicing, similarity search, multiple alignment and sorting and also more. You can also connect with several databases as GenBank, RefSeq, EMBL, TrEMBL, SwissProt, MEDLINE, PROSITE, TRANSFAC, KEGG, FANTOM and PDB.

A first BioRuby on-line tutorial can be found here and here. A comprensive BioRuby shell documentation is also here.

Enjoy programming.

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bioTAG is the new Italian Bioinformatic Weblog whose aims is to inform about bioinformatic trends in softwares, researches and tecnologies, for scientists and students.The posts will fall in several categories :

bioTAG news: news about bioTAG blog
bioprogramming : news about bioinformatic programming languages
webtools : news about bioinformatic web-based tools
molecular modeling : news about molecular modeling softwares
sequence analisys : news about sequences analisys softwares
biostatistics : news about biostatistics softwares
biosoftwares : news about other kind of bioinformatic software
papers : news about papers, researchs and books about bioinformatic
events : news about bioinformatic events
instruments : news about scientific instruments

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