Bioperl: AcePerl 1.56

[Lincoln Stein]

Hi All,

I just released AcePerl 1.56.  The major new feature is an
Ace::Sequence class hierarchy, which integrates directly with Tim
Hubbard's GFF class.  There's also support for features tables
generated from multiple databases.  As long as all the databases share
the same map of the genome (chromosomes down to cosmids), you can mix
and match databases seamlessly, to retrieve unified feature tables.
Then you can turn the feature tables into GFF objects, and it's off to
the races.  See the multi.t regression test for a list of some test
annotation databases.

Unfortunately to use the multiple database features, you have to use
aceserver version 4.7l (that's an "ell").  I'll be folding the changes
into the main version 4.8 branch as soon as I can.

You can get the latest AcePerl, the 4.7l tarball, and the
documentation at this location:

      http://stein.cshl.org/AcePerl/

When you have a chance, also have a look at the expression pattern
database, located at
 
 http://stein.cshl.org/perl/ace/expr_search/elegans

Lincoln

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Lincoln D. Stein                           Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
lstein@cshl.org			                  Cold Spring Harbor, NY
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