[BioPython] Biopython 0.90d04 now available

Jeffrey Chang jchang@SMI.Stanford.EDU
Sun, 26 Nov 2000 19:08:56 -0800 (PST)


Hello everyone,

Biopython release 0.90d04 is now available.  

  Added support for multiple alignments, ClustalW
  BLAST updates, bug fixes, and BlastErrorParser
  Fixes for PSI-BLAST in master-slave mode
  Minor update in stringfns, split separators can be negated
  Added download_many function to PubMed
  xbbtools updates
  Prodoc parser now accepts a copyright at the end of a record
  Swiss-Prot parser now handles taxonomy ID tag

Also, an elaboration from Iddo Friedberg:
SubsMat: a module for generating substitution matrices from user data.
Documentation is available on
http://biopython.org/wiki/html/BioPython/SubsMat.html Accepted replacement
matrices (the initial input for a substitution matrix) may be generated
using the Align module.

FreqTable: a module for generating alphabet (amino-acid/nucleotide)
frequency tables from user data. Documentation is available on:
http://biopython.org/wiki/html/BioPython/FreqTable.html


Note: this release requires Python 2.0.  Most older code will continue to
work with Python 1.52, however.  If you need continued 1.52 compatibility
with a specific module(s), please let us know!

Download and enjoy!

Jeff