I scouted the bioruby git repository the other day to see what might be new in the current snapshot.   These are some of the notable changes:

Bug fixes;

Lots of bug fixes. For example the Bio::Fasta.remote bug has been fixed, workaround for Zlib error, fixed method names

Increased ruby 1.9 support

Renaming of files and modules

Some files and modules have been renamed for example Bio::Fastq:QualityScore has been renamed to Bio::Sequence::QualityScore

Better documentation

There is a samples folder that include sample usage of some classes and methods

PhyloXML support

Support for the phyloxml parser and writer has been included. A new version(1.10) of the PhyloXML schema has been added.

This contribution was provided by the awesome Latvian girl through a Google Summer of Code project and working for NESCent organization.

Meme and Mast support

Contributed by Adam Kraut. Minimal and basic support for the motif finding application Meme and Mast has been added.

Efficiecy

Speed up of Bio::Tree.children

* Bio::Tree#parent is changed to directly raise IndexError when

* Bio::Tree#path is changed not to call bfs_shortest_path if the

To build a gem based on the current snapshot,  make sure the following lines have been included in the bioruby.gemspecs file. The current(today’s) snapshot may have already fixed this by now. :)

    "lib/bio/db/fasta/fasta_to_biosequence.rb",
    "lib/bio/db/fastq/fastq_to_biosequence.rb",
    "lib/bio/db/fastq/format_fastq.rb",
    "lib/bio/db/fastq.rb",
    "lib/bio/db/sanger_chromatogram/abif.rb",
    "lib/bio/db/sanger_chromatogram/chromatogram.rb",
    "lib/bio/db/sanger_chromatogram/chromatogram_to_biosequence.rb",
    "lib/bio/db/sanger_chromatogram/scf.rb",
    "lib/bio/db/phyloxml/phyloxml.xsd",
    "lib/bio/db/phyloxml/phyloxml_elements.rb",
    "lib/bio/db/phyloxml/phyloxml_parser.rb",
    "lib/bio/db/phyloxml/phyloxml_writer.rb",
    "lib/bio/sequence/quality_score.rb"

Note that this is the breeding edge version and things are bound to break.

Please forward feedback to the developers.

Thank you for the awesome work!