[bip] PyCogent alive and well

[Gavin Huttley]

hi all,

Noticed some queries regarding the 'health' of PyCogent.

The project is very much alive and well, with very active development  
from a number of labs across the globe. We are always open to input  
from others so feel free to contact myself or Rob Knight with queries,  
etc .. (our emails are on the open access publication at http://genomebiology.com/2007/8/8/R171) 
.

Note that the best way to report bugs, feature or documentation  
requests is through the project Tracker on the sourceforge project  
page (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=186234). It is monitored!

If you want the latest and greatest, grab the svn repo (instructions  
at http://pycogent.wiki.sourceforge.net/).

One area where we have been lax is documentation. The good news is  
that we have ported the documentation to Sphinx (changes in the  
repository version) and are now significantly extending it. So queries  
about application controllers (which I just found at bip) are now  
largely addressed in the repository version of the project  
documentation.

More generally, I apologise to all those who have had trouble in  
finding the documentation. We are actively working on improving this  
situation by actually updating the documentation available on the web  
rather than just have it buried in the repository.

Finally, a request for input. We are currently working on an extensive  
cookbook. If users have specific queries regarding what they'd like to  
see in it, please let us know!

cheers,

Gavin Huttley