We are proud to announce the release of screed v0.5. screed is a database engine capable of storing and retriving short-read sequence data. screed is designed to be fast and adaptable to different sequence file formats. This marks the first release of screed which we consider stable and complete.
screed is written entirely in Python and uses the Sqlite database for backend storage. screed can be downloaded from the public git repository: http://github.com/acr/screed.git
screed is licensed under the BSD license which can be viewed in the doc/LICENSE.txt file.