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wEMBOSS and wrappers4EMBOSS have not been maintained for several years. They will however remain available as long as SourceForge is willing to host the project. Anybody is free to download the code and use it for his own purpose.

It contains support for BLAST+ and InterPro 5.

good news : Emiliano Barreto from EMBnet Columbia has joined the wEMBOSS development team, which will ensure the further development of wEMBOSS and wrappers4EMBOSS after the developers of the now defunct Belgian node step out of the project.

It contains support for EMBOSS 6.4.0 and MRS 5. It has been extensively refreshed in order to make further development easier.

ebi_tmhmm has been adapted to work with the new EBI Web server

It contains support for EMBOSS 6.3.0.

It contains support for EMBOSS 6.2.0 and a series of enhancements and bug fixes.

It contains support for EMBOSS 6.1.0, MRS 4, PhyML 2, CLUSTAL 2 and InterProScan 4.5.

In order to make further development easier, wEMBOSS has been reorganized from the developer and manager point-of-view. It is now developed using Eclipse and the Epic plug-in. The development version is called wEMBOSSDEV. From this distribution versions can be regularly generated ; they are called wEMBOSSDIST, followed by some version number.

With recent versions of Web browsers a problem had a appeared : you had
to type in your username/password for each frame separately (up to 4
times). We have recently released wEMBOSS subversion 1.8.1, with a
change in the login procedure that makes you must login only once.

It contains bug fixes for running under EMBOSS version 6 and for using a local MRS version 3 installation, as well as some enhancements for the fastA, ps_scan, InterProScan and EBI Web Services modules.

wrappers4EMBOSS version 2.1 works with EMBOSS versions 3 to 6. It has a
new module for phylogeny using Maximum Likelihood and allows to access
a remote MRS server by Web Services. The module EBI Web Services has
been adapted to the new version of the EBI SOAP server.

wEMBOSS version 1.8 works with EMBOSS versions from 3 to 6
and contains a lot of bug and feature fixes. There are
separate versions for Mac OSX and other UNIX flavors. It
contains wrappers4EMBOSS 2.1.0.

wrappers4EMBOSS version 2 uses the EMBASSY package MYEMBOSS
rather then EMBOSS itself for compilation and installation and works
with EMBOSS versions from 3 to 5. It has two new modules MRS and
InterProScan and has been overall refreshed.

A new version of wEMBOSS with wrappers4EMBOSS 2 included is expected for begin 2008.

This release is mainly to fix a problem with editing nucList and protList and also includes some minor changes.
wrappers4EMBOSS-1.5.1 is included in this wEMBOSS release.

This release adds some extra toggles for muscle, phiblast and psiblast to comply to wEMBOSS not allowing anymore users to choose name for output files.
These programs needs to create extra files and thus the toggle buttons allow it under wEMBOSS.

This release is compatible both with EMBOSS-4 and 3.
A few bugs fixed and some new features in this version.
wrappers4EMBOSS-1.5 is distributed with this release as an optional to install.
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wemboss/wEMBOSS-1.7.0.tar.gz?download

Major improvement for this release are the new wrappers to EBI WebServices for blast, fasta and transmembrane prediction servers.
wEMBOSS-1.7 will be released in the upcoming
weeks.

You can download wrappers4EMBOSS at https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=170030

wEMBOSS site is moving to Sourceforge! In the following days our site will be completed. Last and previous releases are already available for download at http://wemboss.sourceforge.net