Satellite meeting for BioRuby? development and documentation

Topics

Miscellaneous things about BioRuby? delvelopment and documentation.

Participants

• Naohisa Goto
• Raoul JP Bonnal
• Toshiaki Katayama
• Jan Aerts
• Mitsuteru Nakao

Targets

• Developer of BioRuby?
• End-users of BioRuby?

Date

• 2009/3/19 17:00-
• Any time via online :-)

Room

• 3F Chura Hall

Results

• Bug fixes
  • Bio::PubMed?.esearch bug -- fixed by Toshiaki
  • Bio::Fasta::Report problem
• New features
  • FASTQ format parser
• Discussion
  • BioRuby? documentation plan
    • To add documents quickly, we decided to "translate" BioPerl?'s HOWTOs into BioRuby?.
    • Priority to translate (or to write from scratch) is assigned.
    • In addition to the translation, we are going to add new HOWTOs.
    •  http://bioruby.open-bio.org/wiki/HOWTOs
  • Discussion about next version release
    • Current version is 1.3.0.
    • 1.3.1: Bug fixes and some improvements
      • TogoWS as default data source
      • BioSQL
      • tutorial
    • 1.4.0
    • New features
  • BioRuby? publication plan

TODOs

• Writing documents
• hack, hack, hack