Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-08-20 Severity: wishlist * Package name : biopython Version : 1.00a4 Upstream Author : Many, see http://www.biopython.org/Participants.shtml * URL : http://www.biopython.org/ * License : Python-like, http://www.biopython.org/License.shtml Description : Python modules for computational molecular biology
Project current goals are to develop: * The basic data types for biological objects, such as sequences and maps, * The core analysis tasks, including database record lookup, sequence algnment and the ubiquitous BLAST and FASTA interfaces, * I/O routines for the standard file formats, * Scaffolding to get these parts talking to each other, * Freely-available, high-quality, well-documented source code and documentation, * A regression suite to tell if we made any stupid mistakes. Preliminary packages are available at http://people.debian.org/~wart/biopython/ -- Regards, Wartan. "Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are."