This library was developed by the rost lab. the lab's research is driven by a conviction that protein and dna sequences encode a significant core of information about the ultimate structure and function of genetic material and its gene products.

the library provides the following facilities:
* current working directory resource
* exception with stack backtrace
* file lock resource
* passwd and group structures for c++
* effective uid and gid resource
* rostlab::bio::seq class with stream input operator for fasta format
* umask resource
this package contains the shared library.