[BioPython] plone4bio project starts

[Ivan Rossi]

Dear list members,
     We are pleased to announce a new Plone project: plone4bio.
As the name suggest it is intended as a set of products to do 
bioinformatics within the Plone CMS. Plone4Bio takes advantage of 
Biopython.

What is plone4bio
    The rationale of the plone4bio project is to provide an integrated 
environment where it is possible to manage and analyze biological 
sequences. The plone4bio package provides the possibility to add a new 
plone content type, called sequence, than can be either written by hand or 
imported from a FASTA file, and to apply to that sequence a program, called 
predictor, that gives back a plot of predicted probabilities for the 
sequence to have a given property (the property that the predictor tries to 
determine).  thus a predictor can try to assess if a protein sequence is 
trans-membrane, whether a signal peptide exists, and so on.

plone4bio.base
    The plone4bio.base is a package that defines a skeleton predictor: 
deriving from that it is possible to integrate any other application and 
visualize all the results together.

biocomp.pscoils
    This is an example predictor, encapsulating the pscoils algorithm by 
Fariselli et al. available at http://www.biocomp.unibo.it/ It is intended 
both as an example on how to integrate one's own predictor in the plone4bio 
framework.

Requirements

    1. python2.4
    2. python setup tools (the python-setuptools Debian package)
    3. biopython
    4. PIL

Download and Project page
    The software is available at http://www.plone4bio.org

Further information
    Available either through the web site (plone4bio.org) or subscribing to 
the mailing list (p4b at biodec dot com)

For installation and documentation issues refer to README.txt and 
INSTALL.txt files from the archive, or the script published on the 
plone4bio wiki site. plone4bio is published under the GPL license.

This product is produced independently from the product Plone, and carries 
no guarantee from the Plone Foundation about quality, suitability or 
anything else. The supplier of this product assumes all responsibility for 
it.


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