Updating CONTRIB and NEWS for Biopython 1.53 contributors as discusse…

…d on the mailing list (trying to follow the more inclusive style of the Sage project)

CONTRIB

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Tiago Antao <tiagoantao at gmail.com>
 Sebastian Bassi <sbassi at domain asalup.org>
 Bill Barnard <bill at domain barnard-engineering.com>
 Yves Bastide <ybastide at domain irisa.fr>
+Paul Bathen
 Yair Benita <Y.Benita at domain pharm.uu.nl>
 Peter Bienstman <Peter.Bienstman at domain rug.ac.be>
 Bob Bussell <rgb2003 at domain med.cornell.edu>
@@ -24,6 +25,8 @@ Marc Colosimo <mcolosimo at domain mitre.org>
 Cymon J Cox <cymon at domain duke.edu>
 Gavin E Crooks <gec at domain compbio.berkeley.edu>
 Andrew Dalke <dalke at domain acm.org>
+Kyle Ellrott
+Frederik Gwinner
 Michiel de Hoon <mdehoon at domain c2b2.columbia.edu>
 Sjoerd de Vries <sjoerd at domain nmr.chem.uu.nl>
 Iddo Friedberg <idoerg at domain burnham.org>
@@ -52,4 +55,5 @@ Dan Vogel <dmv at domain andrew.cmu.edu>
 David Weisman <david.weisman at domain acm.org>
 Bartek Wilczynski <bartek at domain rezolwenta.eu.org>
 David Winter <david dot winter at gmail dot com> 
+Hongbo Zhu
 Harry Zuzan <iliketobicycle at domain yahoo.ca>

NEWS

@@ -52,14 +52,16 @@ The restriction enzyme list in Bio.Restriction has been updated to the
 Nov 2009 release of REBASE.
 
 The Bio.PDB parser and output code has been updated to understand the
-element column in ATOM and HETATM lines. Bio.PDB.PDBList has also been
-updated for recent changes to the PDB FTP site.
+element column in ATOM and HETATM lines (based on patches contributed by
+Hongbo Zhu and Frederik Gwinner). Bio.PDB.PDBList has also been updated
+for recent changes to the PDB FTP site (Paul T. Bathen).
 
-SQLite support was added for BioSQL databases, allowing access to BioSQL 
-through a lightweight embedded SQL engine. Python 2.5+ includes support for
-SQLite built in, but on Python 2.4 the optional sqlite3 library must be
-installed to use this. We currently use a draft BioSQL on SQLite schema,
-which will be merged with the main BioSQL release for use in other projects.
+SQLite support was added for BioSQL databases (Brad Chapman), allowing access
+to BioSQL through a lightweight embedded SQL engine. Python 2.5+ includes
+support for SQLite built in, but on Python 2.4 the optional sqlite3 library
+must be installed to use this. We currently use a draft BioSQL on SQLite
+schema, which will be merged with the main BioSQL release for use in other
+projects.
 
 Support for running Biopython under Jython (using the Java Virtual Machine)
 has been much improved thanks to input from Kyle Ellrott. Note that Jython
@@ -69,6 +71,21 @@ Also, currently Jython does not parse DTD files, which means the XML parser
 in Bio.Entrez won't work. However, most of the Biopython modules seem fine
 from testing Jython 2.5.0 and 2.5.1.
 
+(At least) 12 people contributed to this release, including 3 first timers:
+
+Bartek Wilczyns
+Brad Chapman
+Chris Lasher
+Cymon Cox
+Frank Kauff
+Frederik Gwinner (first contribution)
+Hongbo Zhu (first contribution)
+Kyle Ellrott
+Leighton Pritchard
+Michiel de Hoon
+Paul Bathen (first contribution)
+Peter Cock
+
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 September 22, 2009: Biopython 1.52 released.