circtools 1.2.0 released
We are proud to release a new major version of circtools, 1.2.0 as of today.
Highlights
- 1.2.0 features the new siRNA design module that allows to design siRNAs that can be used to knock-down specific circRNAs
- circtools 1.2.0 requires Python >= 3.6 (due to Biopython)
- Both, DCC and FUCHS have been ported to Python 3.5 and will not work with Python 2.x anymore.
Fixes
- 1.2.0 contains general bugfixes
- Fix broken pysam dependency of HTseq for DCC #58
- Adding python package
reportlab
to dependency list - Updated install procedure
- Fixing Read the Docs build error
- Fixing failing Travis tests
- Primex crashes when product length > circRNA length #75
- primex script no validates input parameters for the PCR product size
- Adding
-n
flag for specifying the number of primer pairs (default: 10) - Implementing curl macOS fix for #77
- circtools installation sets wrong R library folder in .Renviron #78
- Error using R version 3.6 #76
- Updating bedtools version to 2.29.2
- Updating R dependencies
- Adding sus scrofa support for primex