<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hey Folks-<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">BioBrew-4.1 rolls for use with Rocks-4.1 (<A href="http://www.rocksclusters.org">www.rocksclusters.org</A>) on x86 and x86_64 architectures are here (finally). The rolls can be downloaded at biobrew.org (<A href="ftp://ftp.bioinformatics.org/pub/biobrew/">ftp://ftp.bioinformatics.org/pub/biobrew/</A>).</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>Application upgrades for 4.1:</B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">upgraded MrBayes to 3.1-1</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">upgraded hmmer to 2.3.2-4</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">upgraded wwwblast to 2.2-12</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">upgraded EMBOSS to 3.0.0-1</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">upgraded NCBI BLAST to 2.2.12-1 (using Joe Landman's <FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande">NCBI-2.2.12-1static.src.rpm <FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">srpm</FONT>)</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">upgraded mpiBLAST to 1.40-1 (using Joe Landman's <FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande">mpiblast-1.4.0-1.src.rpm <FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">srpm</FONT>)</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">upgraded Phylip to 3.65-1</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>New applications:</B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">biopython-1.40b-1</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">clustalw-mpi-0.13-1</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">modeltest-3.7-1</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Numeric-24.0b2-1</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">primer3-1.0.0-1</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">probcons-1.10-1</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">reportlab-1.20-1</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">t-coffee-2.66-1</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">There were several packages that I wanted to include, but I was delaying the release for much too long. I will try to create incremental releases that include new packages. All SRPMS are posted on the website (<A href="ftp://ftp.bioinformatics.org/pub/biobrew/srpms/4.1/">ftp://ftp.bioinformatics.org/pub/biobrew/srpms/4.1/</A>). You can subscribe to the BioBrew mailing list here: <A href="http://bioinformatics.org/lists/BioBrew-Users">http://bioinformatics.org/lists/BioBrew-Users</A>.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">. </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Thanks to Joe Landman of Scalable Informatics, Luc Ducazu of BioLinux, Susan Chacko at NIH, and Rudi Chiarito and Bent Terp of the BioRPMS project at the BEA core facility at NOVUM (<A href="http://apt.bea.ki.se">http://apt.bea.ki.se</A>/) for the packages and SRPMS they make available to the community, and from which I borrowed liberally. Their efforts helped make this release a reality. </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Glen Otero</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Linux Prophet</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>