v3.0.0

MIToS v3.0.0

Diff since v2.22.0

MIToS v3.0.0 requires Julia v1.9 or higher, dropping support for older versions. This
release introduces several breaking changes to improve the usability of the package.
When possible, deprecation warnings are used to inform you of the changes.

MIToS.MSA

The MSA module now includes ways to read, write, and work with unaligned protein sequences:

• The MSA module now exports the AnnotatedSequence type to represent a single protein
  sequence with annotations. This type is a subtype of the new AbstractSequence type,
  a subtype of the new AbstractResidueMatrix type.

• The MSA module now exports the sequence_id function to get the identifier of a
  sequence object.

• The MSA module now defines the FASTASequences, PIRSequences, and RawSequences
  file formats to read and write (unaligned) protein sequences in FASTA, PIR, and raw
  formats, respectively.

• [Breaking change] The behavior of the getannotresidue, getannotsequence,
    setannotresidue!, and setannotsequence! functions have changed for sequences objects,
  such as AnnotatedSequence, AnnotatedAlignedSequence, and AlignedSequence. Now, these
  functions take the feature name, rather than the sequence name, as the second
  positional argument. As an example of migration,
    getannotsequence(sequence, "sequence_name", "feature_name") should be replaced by
    getannotsequence(sequence, "feature_name"). You still need to specify the sequence name
  when working with MSA objects.

Other changes in the MSA module are:

• [Breaking change] The join function for AnnotatedMultipleSequenceAlignment objects
  is deprecated in favor of the join_msas function.

• [Breaking change] The Clusters type is no longer a subtype of ClusteringResult from
  the Clustering.jl package. Instead, the Clusters type is now a subtype of the new
  AbstractCluster type. Support for the Clustering.jl interface is still available
  through package extensions. You now need to load the Clustering.jl package to use the
  assignments, nclusters, and counts functions.

MIToS.PDB

The PDB module now depends on the BioStructures package. The main changes in the PDB
module are:

• The PDB module now exports the MMCIFFile file format to read and write PDB files in
  the mmCIF format (using BioStructures under the hood).

• [Breaking change] The download_alphafold_structure function can now download the
  predicted structures from the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database using the mmCIF
  format (format=MMCIFFile). This is the new default format. Therefore, you should use
  format=PDBFile to get a PDB file like before. For example,
    download_alphafold_structure("P00520") in previous versions is the same as
    download_alphafold_structure("P00520", format=PDBFile) in this version.

• [Breaking change] The downloadpdb function now returns a mmCIF file by default.
  Therefore, you should use format=PDBML to get a PDBML file. As an example of migration,
  downloadpdb("1IVO") should be replaced by downloadpdb("1IVO", format=PDBML), unless
  you want to get a mmCIF file.

• [Breaking change] The PDBAtom type now adds two extra fields: alt_id and charge
  to represent the alternative location indicator and the atom's charge, respectively.
  This improves the compatibility with the mmCIF format and the BioStructures package.

• [Breaking change] The query_alphafolddb function now returns the EntrySummary object
  of the returned JSON response instead of the Root list. Therefore, there is no need to
  take the first element of the list to get the required information. For example,
    query_alphafolddb("P00520")[1]["uniprotId"] would be replaced by
    query_alphafolddb("P00520")["uniprotId"].

MIToS.Utils.Scripts

• [Breaking change] The MIToS.Utils.Scripts module and the MIToS scripts have been
  moved to their package at MIToS_Scripts.jl.
  Therefore, the MIToS.Utils.Scripts module is no longer exported. This allows for a
  reduction in the number of MIToS dependencies, and improved load time.