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BioRuby
The BioRuby project was first started in 2000 by Toshiaki Katayama as a Ruby implementation of similar bioinformatics packages such as BioPerl and BioPython. The initial release of version 0.1 has been frequently updated by contributors both informally and at organised “hackathon” events, with the most recent release of version 1.4.3.0001 in May 2013.

In June 2005, BioRuby was funded by IPA as an Exploratory Software Project, culminating with the release of version 1.0.0 in February 2006.

BioRuby has been the focus of a number of Google Summer of Code projects, including;
 * 2009: Implementing phyloXML support in BioRuby
 * 2010: Ruby 1.9.2 support of BioRuby
 * 2010: Implementation of algorithm to infer gene duplications in BioRuby
 * 2011: Represent bio-objects and related informatio with images
 * 2012: Extend bio-alignment plug-in with Multiple Alignment Format -MAF- parser

Version history

 * 0.7.0 December 18, 2005 (438 KB)
 * 1.0.0 February 26, 2006 (528 KB)
 * 1.4.3.0001 May 24, 2013 (1.42 MB)

Above list of releases is abbreviated; the full list can be found here.