[Genquire-users] Genquire release 3.02

[Mark Wilkinson]

Hello all!

A new release of Genquire (3.02) is now available at:
http://www.bioinformatics.org/Genquire.

It includes all bug fixes relating to MS Windows that were discovered during the
biohackathon in Capetown, as well as some improvements to the Blast plugins
interface.  The plugins interface in general is just barely functional under MS
Windows, as it relies on nonblocking filehandles, which are unsupported by MS
(ack!!), but it works nicely under Linux.

It also includes a bug-free (touch wood!) readonly adaptor layer into the new
BioSQL default database.  As such, you could take a folder full of Genbank or
EMBL flat-files, run the load_seqdatabase.pl script (in the /scripts/ directory
of the bioperl-db folder) to bring them into the BioSQL database, and
immediately begin browsing the contents of this database using Genquire.  The
process should take no more than 2-3 minutes for client configuration, plus the
time it takes for the files to be loaded into BioSQL.

have fun!

Mark & Dave


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"Speed is subsittute fo accurancy."
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Dr. Mark Wilkinson
Bioinformatics Group
National Research Council of Canada
Plant Biotechnology Institute
110 Gymnasium Place
Saskatoon, SK
Canada