BIRCH 3.86 now available for download at http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~psgendb/local/public_html/BIRCH3.86announcement.html

NEW:

• In OSX, the desktop app to launch the BIRCH BioLegato application is in $BIRCH/admin/launchers/birch.app. Although BioLegato is a 64-bit Java application, the launcher was an old one generated when apps were 32-bit. Beginning with OSX Catalina, 32-bit apps will no longer run.  The BIRCH application was still able to launch from the command line. This app has been regenerated as a 64-bit launcher using Platypus on a High Sierra Mac.
• Updated User Settings documentation with information on NCBI transition to 3rd party authentication.
• NCBI database list has been updated to include the following databases newly available for FTP download: (env_nr, mito, pat_aa, refseq_select_prot)
• FASTA updated to version 36.3.8i.
• Jalview - updated to version 2.11.2.0.
• FastQC - updated to version 0.11.9
• Cytoscape - updated to version 3.9.0
• Mesquite - updated to version 3.70.
• trim_galore - updated to version 0.68
• cutadapt - updated to version 3.7.
  
• Trinity - updated to version 2.14.0

BIRCH unifies hundreds of popular bioinformatics tools through the BioLegato family of Object-Oriented applications. BioLegato makes it easy to try out new programs, and to experiment with your data at every step in the analytical process.