<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hello all,</span><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Last week at the BCC2020 CoFest thanks to multiple new contributors</div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">we finished applying the black Python coding style to the remaining test</div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">cases in Biopython. We now use this style for all our code.</div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Also, this has more impact for end users, we have now REMOVED the</div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Bio.Alphabet module.</div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">In many cases, the alphabet can simply be ignored and removed from scripts.</div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">In a few cases, you may need to specify the "molecule_type" as an annotation</div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">on a SeqRecord for your script to work correctly. We are collating examples on<br></div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/biopython/biopython/issues/3156" target="_blank">https://github.com/biopython/biopython/issues/3156</a> (content likely to be moved</div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">to a more permanent location later).</div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>You can read about or hear me talking briefly about this in the 5 minute</div><div>"Biopython Project Update 2020" talk given at BCC2020:</div><div><br></div><div><a rel="nofollow" href="https://f1000research.com/slides/9-790" target="_blank">https://f1000research.com/slides/9-790</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><a rel="nofollow" href="https://bcc2020.sched.com/event/coLV/biopython-project-update-2020" target="_blank">https://bcc2020.sched.com/event/coLV/biopython-project-update-2020</a></div></div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Kind regards,</div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Peter</div></div>