[BioC] is Biostrings being maintained?

[Robert Gentleman]

Hi Marcus,
   Yes, sort of, if you want to send me code, or discuss off line,
  we are hoping to spend some time on new capabilities here over the 
next few months. And I will (thought I already had) change the 
maintainer info.

   Robert

Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Does anyone know if Biostrings is being maintained?  I see the version 
> number bumped between Bioconductor releases, but the maintainer's 
> (Saikat Debroy) e-mail bounces at the University of Wisconsin.
> 
> One thing I'd like to add support for matching amino acid strings.  It 
> seems to be partially implemented, so I wonder if anyone else has a 
> later version than is to be included in 1.8.
> 
> Alternatively, if anyone knows of an R package that already has the 
> capability to do high-speed matching of multiple strings (with an amino 
> acid alphabet), I'd appreciate the pointer.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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