[BioPython] Bio.IntelliGenetics (and the MASE format)

[Peter]

Dear all,

We've recently added support for parsing (reading) the IntelliGenetics
sequence file format to Bio.SeqIO, under the format name "ig"
(following the EMBOSS convention).  This file format also seems to be
known as the MASE multiple sequence alignment format.

This means that the old Bio.IntelliGenetics module is essentially
obsolete, and we could therefore deprecate it in a future Biopython
release.  Before we do that, is anyone using the Bio.IntelliGenetics
module?  Hopefully using Bio.SeqIO will a suitable substitute for you,
but please do get in touch.

More generally, do any of you currently use the IntelliGenetics or
MASE file format?  I'd love to have a few more example files to use in
our test suite.  Also, would you be interested in using Bio.SeqIO to
write out files in this format?

Thank you,

Peter