[Biobar] Version 1.3 of Biobar now available.

[Jawahar Swaminathan]

Hello,

Thank you for your continued interest in the biobar extension. Version 
1.3 is now in production and is available for download and installation 
from:

http://biobar.mozdev.org/installation.html

This version is a significant improvement over the previous releases. 
The features included in this version are:

# Search Groups of Data simultaneously (structures, function, taxonomy), 
and the results from various databases are shown in tabs
# Add/Save/Edit Custom Links on toolbar menu.
# Open searches in new tab/existing tab.
# BioCyc species file read in from remote XML file for dynamic updates. 
Updates checked every 10 days.
# Biobar code rewritten from scratch to move to a manageable XML based 
format.
# Add/Replace own search databases by simple edits of XML files. See 
http://biobar.mozdev.org/customize
# 38 Biological databases supported in the current version. Recent 
entrants are BMRB and araCyc.
# Future interim updates are likely to be in the form of database XML 
files which when saved in user_profile will automatically update toolbar 
content

Browser versions supported:

Firefox 0.8 - 1.0.1 (all platforms) - tested extensively on MacOS, Linux 
and Windows
Mozilla 1.4 - 1.8 (all platforms)
Netscape 7.0+
Netscape 8.0b is not yet supported.

Please uninstall the previous version of biobar before installing the 
new version wherever possible.

As usual I would be interested in your feedback. Do let me know if 
something stinks, or if something did not work as expected.
Spread the word by adding this icon to your website:  
http://biobar.mozdev.org/biobar_icon.jpg

best regards,

Jawahar Swaminathan, Ph.D.
Macromolecular Structure Database,
European Bioinformatics Institute
Cambridge UK
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