Re: Fwd: [blast-announce] A new version (2.6.0) of the BLAST+ executable is available.

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Fulton, Ben <[email protected]> wrote:
> I apologize; I ran the tests against an older version. The only new options
> available in 2.6 are for rpstblastn: -comp_based_stats and -use_sw_tback .
> I've submitted a pull request for those.

Thanks: https://github.com/biopython/biopython/pull/1050

> IMO the blast command lines would be better expressed as composition rather
> than inheritance. Any objection to me spending some time on that after the
> 1.69 release?

Sure - inheritance seemed like a reasonable approach at the time, but
given how the BLAST+ suite tends to use modules of commands, your
idea might be more elegant - and importantly make these kinds of
updates easier?

Thanks,

Peter