[BioPython] Biopython 1.00a1 released

[Jeffrey Chang]

Hello everybody,

The 1.00a1 release of Biopython is ready for download.  This release marks
two milestone in the package.  First, it is now 1.00, which means it's
relatively feature complete.  It has support for sequences & annotations,
alignments, substitution matrices, BLAST, ClustalW, ENZYME, FASTA
formatting, GenBank, GoBase, Medline, Prosite, Rebase, SCOP, SwissProt,
and UniGene.  Second, it's the first non-developer's release, which means
it's now reasonable to expect people to download it and do work
immediately without having to mess around with the code.  Please download
it at:
http://www.biopython.org/Download/

Since it's an alpha release, we do expect bugs to pop up occasionally.  If
you notice one, please report to:
http://www.biopython.org/biopython-bugs/

As always, documentation is available at:
http://www.biopython.org/wiki/html/BioPython/BiopythonCode.html


What's new from 0.90d04:
  Refactoring of modules.  X/X.py moved to X/__init__.py.
  Can search sequences for Prosite patterns at ExPASy
  Can do BLAST searches against stable URL at NCBI
  Prosite Pattern bug fixes
  GenBank parser
  Complete Seq and SeqFeatures framework
  distutils cleanup
  compile warning cleanups
  support for UniGene
  code for working with substitution matrices
  Tools.MultiProc package for rudimentary multiprocessing stuff


The Biopython package has been developed by a consortium of volunteers.
Major contributors to the package include (in no particular order):
Brad Chapman
Kate Lindner
Andrew Dalke
Thomas Sicheritz Ponten
Iddo Friedberg
Jeffrey Chang


Enjoy!

Jeff