Bioperl

Many minor bugs were fixed. DBMS support was enhanced in Bio::DB::SeqFeature.

This is the first core release in the 1.6 series, and the first stable release after 5 years of development releases.

Many bugfixes and enhancements were made, including support for parsing the latest NCBI BLAST text format changes, PAML 3.15 support, a Taxonomy (Bio::Species) overhaul, a Bio::Map overhaul, a Bio::SearchIO speedup, the introduction of a Build.PL installation system, and fixes for some memory leaks in Bio::Tree. This version requires Perl 5.6.1 or later.

This release fixes broken code in the 1.5.0 release, deals with NCBI
RemoteBlast changes, adds better BLAST parsing, and respects the 1.4.0
API.

This release includes several new modules and some
code cleanup since the 1.4.0 branch. It is the
initial code that will lead to the 1.6 stable
branch release.