Fixed compatibility issue with ancestral state reconstruction (ASR) and new versions of APE R package. Minor changes to testfiles and test script related to ASR.

Now specify specific versions of dependencies and describe how PICRUSt1 can be installed in a standalone conda environment. This is intended as a stable final release that can be pointed to when installing from bioconda.

• Made updates and fixes to predict_traits.py --> now allows for continuous predictions.
• Minor update to how dataframe is transformed by APE R script.
• Added bioconda as the recommended install method.

• Added script to automatically download precalculated files.
• Made bug fix where CIs were always rounded and added flag to turn off predicted trait rounding.
• Updated genome evaluation scripts (used for paper) for BIOM 2.1.x.
• Minor script documentation updates.

This release contains a few minor fixes and updates. In particular, several updates were made to how users can limit output of the metagenome_contributions.py script to functional categories.

This is the first major release since 1.0.0 in 2013.

Major change is that this release depends on BIOM 2.1.x (instead of BIOM 1.x).

Also, development of PICRUSt is starting up again so keep an eye out for new features!

Official release of PICRUSt 1.0.0.

This version includes several bug fixes both with the code and the precalculated files.

Also, documentation has been expanded greatly to include an overview of how PICRUSt works, suggestions for how to use PICRUSt properly, and a new tutorial on how to use PICRUSt output with STAMP.

This release includes many changes.
Most importantly the generation of new PICRUSt precalculated files for GreenGenes version 13.5. Also, the ability to predict not only KO functions, but COG and RFAM as well.

Running of predict_metagenomes.py is faster and requires less memory due to a change in the format of the precalculated files.

Lastly, during installation of PICRUSt the user must download the precalculated files they need (based on version of GreenGenes that was used for OTU picking) separately from the PICRUSt software.