BIRCH 3.87 now available for download at http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~psgendb/local/public_html/BIRCH3.87announcement.html

NEW:

• BioLegato 1.1.0
  
• BioLegato PCD include directive - BioLegato now has a preprocessor, similar to the C include directive, that substitutes PCD code from an external file, prior to parsing. Thus, any BioLegato blmenu file can include PCD from a file. This is particularly useful for blmenus that display lists, such as lists of locally-installed databases. The include directive adds greater flexibility to how BioLegato menus can be constructed.
  
• BLAST databases - BLAST databases are no longer available from EMBL-EBI. This site has been removed from blastdbkit.py. Databases can still be downloaded from NCBI and DDBJ.
• MAFFT - Updated to v 7.505, which fixes an important memory allocation bug.

BIRCH unifies hundreds of popular bioinformatics tools through the BioLegato family of Object-Oriented applications. BioLegato makes it easy to try out new programs, and to experiment with your data at every step in the analytical process.