As I have recently complained about open source software coming without pre-compiled binaries, I salute the release of HMMER beta 3, which has a pre-compiled Intel/Linux tar-ball. This is exactly the kind of convenience measures I have asked for, and thus I wanted to state that clearly here. Well done, Sean Eddy and company!
HMMER is a bioinformatics software for finding sequence homology. People into bioinformatics may appreciate some of the new features, like multicore support, and better-than-BLAST speeds (unbelievable but true!). For those of you that are interested, the full range of features, as well as the software download can be found here:
HMMER 3.0b3: the final beta test release
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