[Bioperl-l] Bio::Prospect:: -- a Perl interface to Prospect protein threading

[Reece Hart]

bioperl-l gang:

We're pleased to announce the first public release of Bio::Prospect::, a
Perl API for protein fold recognition with Prospect PRO.  A
mini-manuscript describing the module is available at
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/prospect-if/manuscript.pdf?download. 


        Abstract
        We present Bio::Prospect::, an object-oriented Perl Application
        Programming Interface (API) to the PROSPECT protein threading
        application. The Bio::Prospect:: modules facilitate executing
        the program, parsing the results, generating a homology model
        from an alignment, preparing a model for display with RasMol,
        and reconciling multiple pairwise alignments as a single
        multiple sequence alignment. The Bio::Prospect:: modules provide
        for local and remote execution of PROSPECT via a consistent
        interface. PROSPECT results may be represented with the
        full-featured Thread class or as a space-efficient distillation
        of results with the ThreadSummary class; instances of both
        classes may be serialized for network transmission of results
        from remote execution.


LICENSE: The module is released under the  Academic Free License v. 2.0
(http://www.opensource.org/licenses/afl-2.0.php).

AVAILABILITY: The project is hosted on SourceForge
(http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/prospect-if/). A perl install
package is available through CPAN (http://search.cpan.org/~reece/).
Example scripts are included.

REQUIREMENTS: This module requires Prospect PRO
(http://www.bioinformaticssolutions.com/products/prospect.php) and
several other perl modules, all available from CPAN.


Comments, bug reports, patches, and code contributions are encouraged.

Happy Threading,
Reece Hart and David Cavanaugh

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