[Biopython-dev] 1.57 release plans

[Peter Cock]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Brad Chapman wrote:
>> Peter;
>>
>>> > What is our timeline for 1.57?
>>
>>> I was hoping for some more comments on the tutorial, and ideally fix
>>> http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/biopython/2011-March/007130.html
>>> but other than that we're good to go. Do you want to do the honours?
>>
>> For your fastq file examples, we could use the EBI short read
>> archive, which is staying around for a while longer:
>>
>> ftp://ftp.sra.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/fastq/ERR000/ERR000001/
>
> Good plan - why didn't I think of that the other night when I was
> looking at this? I may even be able to find the equivalent files to
> the ones we used to use from the NCBI SRA. I'll try and sort
> that today or tomorrow...

Good news - the tutorial update is nearly done now.

Bad news - I updated to NCBI BLAST 2.2.25+ and the unit test is
complaining about some new switches like -db_hard_mask which
we'll need to add and then white-list in test_NCBI_BLAST_tools.py
(or just turn off this bit of the tests)

Peter