[Biopython-dev] Release announcement for 1.51b

[David Winter]

Hi Guys,

This is a draft for an announcement once the 1.51 beta is ready to roll.
Any comments are welcome, it would probably be useful to have another
paragraph with some more details on GenBank feature writing and the
application wrappers from people that are more familiar with them that I
am.

Cheers,
David

Biopython 1.51 beta available for testing.

A beta release for Biopython 1.51 is now available for download and
testing. In the two months since Biopython 1.50 was released we have
introduced support for writing features in GenBank files, added new
application wrappers for alignment programs, extended SeqIO's support for
the FASTQ format to include files created by Illumnia 1.3+ and made
numerous tweaks and bug fixes.

All the new features have been tested by the dev team but it's possible
there are cases for these tools that we haven't been able to foresee and
test, especially for the GenBank feature writer. We are interested in
getting feedback on the release as a whole and especially on the new
features (and their documentation in the Biopython Tutorial and Cookbook).
So, gather your courage, download the release, try it out and let us know
what works and what doesn't through the mailing lists.

[then some links to the files to download]