Archive for September, 2008

Biopython, Numeric and numpy

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

To date, Biopython releases have relied on the original numerical python library, Numeric (used in python with "import Numeric").  In the next release we will at last be moving to its successor, NumPy (used in python with "import numpy"). This transition is already under way in the Biopython source code repository.  ...

Biopython release 1.48

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

We are pleased to announce the release of Biopython 1.48. Some new functionality has been added, a few bugs have been fixed, the documentation has been updated, plus several obsolete modules have been deprecated (or explicitly labelled as obsolete). The following additional file formats are now supported in Bio.SeqIO and Bio.AlignIO: reading ...