Dear colleagues, You might have noticed that the wEMBOSS SourceForge site had not been updated for quite a while. The reason is the tragic disease and decease of our site manager and fellow developer Martin Sarachu from the Argentinean EMBnet Node (see http://www.embnet.org/files/shared/EMBnetNews/embnet_news13_3-high.pdf). The maintenance of the wEMBOSS project has now resumed and we can announce the release of a new version 2.0.0 of wrappers4EMBOSS. A new version of wEMBOSS (with version 2 of wrappers4EMBOSS included) is to be expected for begin 2008.
An important change in wrappers4EMBOSS is that it now uses the EMBASSY module MYEMBOSS rather then EMBOSS itself for compiling and installing. This has two advantages : it goes much faster (which can be convenient if you need to redo it several times) and it avoids overwriting customizations you might have performed directly in the installed version of EMBOSS rather than in the source (addressing an issue raised by some users). Problem is that the manual in HTML format is now installed in .../share/EMBOSS/doc/html/embassy/myseq. A future version of wEMBOSS will fully address the problem of manual location ; for the moment users of wEMBOSS and some other GUI's might have to copy the manual entries "manually" to another location. There are two new modules : an interface to a local installation of the InterProScan server and an interface to a local installation of Maarten Hekkelman's MRS software for indexing databanks. The MRS module contains a program mrsindexsearch, which is much like the SRS based indexsearch. It also provides a tool for using a local MRS as sequence databank access mechanism for EMBOSS and a command line scripting tool. For a complete list of changes, you can consult the Changelog http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=170030&release_id=557931 As far as we know, wrappers4EMBOSS 2.0.0 and wEMBOSS 1.7.1 work well with all versions of EMBOSS from 3.0.0 to 5.0.0. If you however notice a bug, let us know. Also, since we do not have an SRS server anymore, we do not have the expertise for continuing supporting SRS beyond version 8.1 ; if you have a version 8.2 and notice a need for change in our SRS module, suggestions are welcome. Regards, Belgian EMBnet Node - wEMBOSS development team, Guy Bottu _______________________________________________ EMBOSS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/emboss
