[BioPython] Biopython 1.10 Available
Jeffrey Chang
jchang@smi.stanford.edu
Tue, 17 Dec 2002 22:43:11 -0800
Hello Everybody,
I've just made Biopython 1.10 available at:
http://www.biopython.org/Download/
This is a major release with lots of bug fixes and new features.
Everyone using Biopython is strongly recommended to upgrade. Note
that the Python version requirement has been bumped to 2.2.
This is the first(-ish) stable release of Biopython. This means that
the major core functionality and internals are in place. People have
been using Biopython to do real work for a while now, so most of the
major issues have been worked out.
Please send mail to biopython@biopython.org if there are any problems
with this release.
Many thanks to everyone who has contributed with bug reports, patches,
documentation, and any other types of support!
Thanks,
The Biopython Core Team
RELEASE NOTES:
Dec 17, 2002: Biopython 1.10
Python requirement bumped up to 2.2
hierarchy reorg, many things moved upwards into Bio namespace
pairwise2 replaces fastpairwise and pairwise
removed deprecated Sequence.py package
minor bug fix in File.SGMLStripper
added Scripts/debug/debug_blast_parser.py to diagnoze blast parsing errors
IPI supported by SwissProt/SProt.py parser
large speedup for kmeans
new registry framework for generic access to databases and parsers
small bug fix in stringfns.split
scripts that access NCBI moved over to new EUtils system
new crc module
biblio.py supports the EBI Bibliographic database
new CDD parser
new Ndb parser
new ECell parser
new Geo parser
access to GFF databases
new KDTree data structure
new LocusLink parser
new MarkovModel algorithm
new Saf parser
miscellaneous sequence handling functions in sequtils
new SVDSuperimpose algorithm