[Biopython-dev] draft release announcement

[David Winter]

Hi guys,

A draft release announcement for 1.52 for you to look at and comment on. 
This is written with the idea that there will be a blog post describing 
the convert and indexed_dict() methods for SeqIO which can be linked to 
so the
announcement itself is pretty brief.

I didn't mention the movement from CVS to git in the announcement which 
might be something worth adding?

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We are pleased to announce the availability of Biopython 1.52, a new 
stable release of the Biopython library.

It may only have been one month since the last release but in that time 
we've added enough useful features to warrant a new release. Biopython 
1.52 will be of particular interest to people using next generation 
sequencing - new functions added to the AlignIO and SeqIO tools speed up 
the way very large sequence files can be dealt with and you can now 
write phd files like those created by  Phred and used in 454 sequencing.

SeqIO and AlignIO both now have a helper function called convert() that 
allows for simple, optimized conversion between file formats while SeqIO 
gets a new method called indexed_dict() which allows random access to 
sequences in a file without reading every record in that file into memory.

The new release also adds command line wrappers for the EMBOSS versions 
of the phylip phylogeny programs and squashes a few minor bugs reported 
since 1.51 was released.

Sources and a Windows Installer are available from the downloads page.

Thanks to the Biopython development team and to everyone who has 
reported bugs since our last release

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