[Biopython-announce] Biopython 1.00a4 now available

[Jeffrey Chang]

Fresh off the press, Biopython 1.00a4 is now available at:
http://www.biopython.org/Download/

Thanks to everyone involved, there have been a bunch of changes,
fixes, and new additions:
  minor bug fix in NCBIStandalone.blastall
  optimization in dynamic programming code
  new modules for logistic regression and maximum entropy
  minor bug fix in ParserSupport
  minor bug fixes in SCOP package
  minor updates in the kMeans cluster selection code
  minor bug fixes in SubsMat code
  support for XML-formatted MEDLINE files
  added MultiProc.run to simplify splitting code across processors
  listfns.items now supports lists with unhashable items
  new data type for pathways
  new support for intelligenetics format
  new support for metatool format
  new support for NBRF format
  new support for generalized launching of applications
  new support for genetic algorithms
  minor bug fixes in GenBank parsing
  new support for Primer in the Emboss package
  new support for chromosome graphics
  new support for HMMs
  new support for NeuralNetwork
  slew of Martel fixes (see Martel docs)

While we strive to keep things bug free, this is still alpha code and
should be used by people willing to tolerate bugs, changing API's, and
general headaches.

Please send questions and comments to this list, and bugs to the
database at:
http://www.biopython.org/Bugs.shtml

Enjoy!

Jeff