[bip] plone4bio project starts

[Ivan Rossi]

Dear list members,
    We are pleased to announce a new Plone project: plone4bio.  As the name 
suggest it is intended as a set of products to do bioinformatics within the 
Plone CMS.

What is plone4bio
   The rationale of the plone4bio project is to provide an integrated
environment where it is possible to manage and analyze biological sequences. 
The plone4bio package provides the possibility to add a new plone content type,
called sequence, than can be either written by hand or imported from a FASTA
file, and to apply to that sequence a program, called predictor, that gives
back a plot of predicted probabilities for the sequence to have a given
property (the property that the predictor tries to determine).  thus a
predictor can try to assess if a protein sequence is trans-membrane, whether a
signal peptide exists, and so on.

plone4bio.base
   The plone4bio.base is a package that defines a skeleton predictor: deriving
from that it is possible to integrate any other application and visualize all
the results together.

biocomp.pscoils

   this is an example predictor, encapsulating the pscoils algorithm by
Fariselli et al. available at http://www.biocomp.unibo.it/
It is intended both as an example on how to integrate one's own predictor in
the plone4bio framework.

Requirements

   1. python2.4
   2. python setup tools (the python-setuptools Debian package)
   3. biopython
   4. PIL

Download and Project page

   The software is available at http://www.plone4bio.org

Further information

   Available either through the web site (plone4bio.org) or subscribing to 
the mailing list (p4b at biodec dot com)

For installation and documentation issues refer to README.txt and INSTALL.txt
files from the archive, or the script published on the plone4bio wiki site.
plone4bio is published under the GPL license.

This product is produced independently from the product Plone, and carries no
guarantee from the Plone Foundation about quality, suitability or anything
else. The supplier of this product assumes all responsibility for it.


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