= biopython =

== Description ==

Biopython is a set of freely available tools for biological computation written in Python by an international team of developers.

It is a distributed collaborative effort to develop Python libraries and applications which address the needs of current and future work in bioinformatics.

== License ==

Biopython License

== SPKG Maintainers ==

  -- Marshall Hampton, mhampton at d.umn.edu or hamptonio at gmail.com.

== Upstream Contact ==

  -- wiki, http://biopython.org/wiki/Main_Page

== Dependencies ==

None

== Special Update/Build Instructions ==

Source is the same as upstream. Install is via the usual setup.py file.

== Changelog ==

=== biopython-1.60 (John Palmieri, 12 July 2012) ===

 * Update to biopython-1.60, which was released June 25, 2012,
   2012. Release notes are at:
   http://news.open-bio.org/news/2012/06/biopython-1-60-released/.

 * Also update this Changelog: it is now in reverse chronological
   order, most recent entries first.

 * Also make spkg-check executable.

=== biopython-1.59 (Marshall Hampton, 22 March 2012) ===

 * Updating to biopython-1.59, which was released February 24th,
   2012. Release notes are at:
   http://news.open-bio.org/news/2012/02/biopython-1-59-released/

=== biopython-1.58 (Marshall Hampton, 25 October 2011) ===

 * Updating to biopython-1.58, which was released August 18,
   2011. Release notes are at:
   http://news.open-bio.org/news/2011/08/biopython-1-58-released/

=== biopython-1.57 (Adam Webb, 19 April 2011) ===

 * Updating to biopython-1.57, which was released April 2,
   2011. Release notes are at:
   http://news.open-bio.org/news/2011/04/biopython-1-57-released/

=== biopython-1.56 ===

 * Updating to biopython-1.56, which was released November 26, 2010.  

=== biopython-1.55 ===

 * Updating to biopython-1.55, which was released August 31, 2010.
   Release notes are at:
   http://news.open-bio.org/news/2010/08/biopython-1-55-released/

 * Removed patches folder and patching to __init__.py since the test
   issue requiring that was solved upstream.

=== biopython-1.54 ===

 * Updating to biopython-1.54, which was released May 20th, 2010.
   Release notes are at:
   http://news.open-bio.org/news/2010/05/biopython-release-154/

=== biopython-1.53 ===

 * Updating to biopython-1.53, which was released December 15th, 2009.
   Release notes are at:
   http://news.open-bio.org/news/2009/12/biopython-release-153/

=== biopython-1.52 ===

 * Updating to biopython-1.52, which was released September 22, 2009.
   Main improvements were to alignment and sequence file conversion,
   population genetics statistics, and the Bio.SeqIO.indexed_dict()
   for handling large numbers of sequences.

 * Add a patch to Bio/Wise/__init__.py to skip the doctest. This test
   fails during the install when using 'sage -i' and SAGE_CHECK="yes".

=== biopython-1.51 ===

* Updating to biopython-1.51, which was released August 17, 2009.
  Biopython has eliminated several dependencies such as Numeric and
  mx-text-tools, so this is now easier to install and maintain.

=== biopython-1.51b ===

 * Updating to biopython-1.51beta, which was released June 23rd, 2009.

=== biopython-1.49b ===

 * Updating to biopython-1.49beta, which was released November 7, 2008.

=== biopython-1.47 ===

 * Updating to biopython-1.47, which was released July 5, 2008.

=== biopython-1.45 ===

 * Adding a changelog!

 * Updating to biopython-1.45, which was released March 22, 2008.