[Samtools-announce] Picard release 1.55

[Alec W. <al...@br...>]

Picard release 1.55
24 October 2011

- IoUtil.java: Fixed openFileForBufferedWriting() methods to vector 
through openFileForWriting methods which do the detection of .gz/.bz 
extensions and open up the appropriate compression output streams.

- Implemented an option to allow for gzipping the output files from 
ExtractIlluminaBarcodes, and added a little bit of progress logging too.

- Changes to introduce a SAMRecordFactory for use in SAMFileReader and 
related classes.  Allows users of the picard/sam API to substitute a 
different factory that will create and return custom sub-classes of 
SAMRecord and BAMRecord.

-Alec