ProDy 1.5 Series
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1.5.1 (Dec 24, 2013)
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**Changes**:

  * :class:`PDBBlastRecord` become picklable.


1.5 (Dec 23, 2013)
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**New Features**:

  * :func:`.buildDirectInfoMatrix` and :func:`.calcMeff` are implemented
    for calculation of direct information from multiple sequence alignments.

  * :func:`.showDirectInfoMatrix` and :func:`.showSCAMatrix` functions
    are implemented for displaying coevolutionary data.

  * :class:`.RTB` is implemented for Rotations-Translations of Blocks
    calculations. Optional arguments also permit *imANM* calculations.

**Availability**:


  * Source is moved from :file:`lib/prody` to :file:`prody`.

  * Source code will be hosted only at GitHub_.

**Improvements**:


  * :class:`.DCDFile` and :func:`.parseDCD` support DCD files written by
    :program:`cpptraj`.


**Testing**:

  * ProDy test command (:program:`prody test`) and function :func:`prody.test`
    has been removed for easier maintenance of testing functions.
    See :ref:`testing` for more information on how to test ProDy.