Toshiaki Katayama is announcing that BioRuby with version number 1.5.0 is already available to download.
What is BioRuby ?
BioRuby is An open source bioinformatics library for Ruby .
BioRuby provides an integrated environment for Bioinformatics (Biology Information science).Object oriented scripting language Ruby has many features suitable for bioinformatics research, for example, clear syntax to express complex objects, regular expressions for text handling as powerful as Perl’s, a wide variety of libraries including web service etc.As the Ruby syntax is simple and very clean, we believe that it is easy to learn for beginners, easy to use for biologists, and also powerful enough for the software developers.In BioRuby, the developer can retrieve biological database entries from flat files, internet web servers and local relational databases.These database entries can be parsed to extract information you need. Biological sequences can be treated with the fulfilling methods of the Ruby’s String class and with regular expressions.The library can be integrated with tools like Blast, Fasta, Hmmer and many other software packages for biological analysis. BioRuby supports major biological database formats and provides many ways for accessing them through flatfile indexing, SQL, web services etc. Various web services including KEGG API can be easily utilized by BioRuby.
This is changelog for BioRuby version 1.5.0 :
You can read the complete changelog and also download this latest version on their homepage: bioruby.org