BIRCH Version 2.8.5 NEW: IMPROVEMENTS TO THE BIOLEGATO GRAPHIC INTERFACE bug fixes	BIRCH: A user-oriented, locally-customizable, bioinformatics system Brian Fristensky BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8:54 (9 February 2007) [Abstract] [ PDF]
BIRCH is a comprehensive desktop bioinformatics system which comes with many of the commonly-used bioinformatics programs pre-installed a framework of tools, files, and documentation for organizing and managing a bioinformatics core facility an expandable system that allows you to merge 3rd party programs and documentation seamlessly into the standard BIRCH distribution	FREE DOWNLOAD The latest release of BIRCH (2.8.5) is available at the BIRCH Web site http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~psgendb under the link 'GetBIRCH'.

New in the current release:

• bioLegato has been upgraded to v0.7.7. This version introduces
    the new table canvas, which is used by blmarker.
• ribosome: new options for formating translated amino acid sequences
• The following programs have been removed do to obsolescence:
  
  •   GDE (gde, mgde, tgde) - superseded by bioLegato programs bldna, blprotein, blmarker, bltree
  •   clustalw, clustalx - these are superseded by TCOFFEE
  •   Translate - superseded by ribosome