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Calculating the area under the normal curve in Ruby

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Summary: Attached is a pure Ruby implementation of the AS66 algorithm (Hill 1973), ported from the Fortran code available here. It estimates the integral of the normal distribution, defaulting to the area under the right tail.

BioRuby's Bio::FlatFileIndex compatibility with BioPerl's Bio::DB::Flat

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Summary: Attached is a diff that allows Bio::FlatFileIndex to access BDB flatfile databases created by BioPerl’s Bio::DB::Flat. I have not changed the way BioRuby creates its databases, so this likely breaks access to BioRuby-created flatfile indices.