CRAM 2.0 release candidate made available and two month review period announced.

Today sees the pre-launch of CRAM 2.0 and an announcement of the expected full launch date as the 1st of June, 2013.

This pre-launch comprises the publication of a release candidate for CRAM 2.0, our sequence data compression format, its supporting software toolkit and the CRAM reference registry. 

CRAM 2.0 contains numerous improvements over CRAM 1.0 made possible by active community participation. Minor modifications to the format are possible during the two month review period that now begins. 

CRAM 1.0 will be superseded by CRAM 2.0 at time of full launch.

More information about CRAM can be found here.

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