DESCRIPTION
    The module exports the software_version() subroutine which
    returns the release version of the Ensembl Core API.

fetch_all_alternative_by_Transcript() method in TranslationAdaptor.

fetch_all_alternative_by_Transcipt() and let it only fetch alternative
translations.

Adding a new method as a result of benchmarking to keep developers using SqlHelper with very large data sets. We now can allow the developer to define how they wish to iterate through a result set

_merge_ajoining_coords added to make sure that having more than one coord is wrong. Andy Yates wrote the code i just checked it and added it.

Addition of utility classes for use in the Ensembl API. The first are shortcuts for asserting object/ref types and the second is a class which removes boilerplate from working with databases.

on new species (i.e. species without previous stable IDs).

Untested at the moment.

-  @seqeds = sort { $b->start() <=> $a->start() } @seqeds;
+  # HACK:   The translation ENSP00000420939 somehow makes the next line
+  #         bomb out ($a or $b becomes undef) if the start() method
+  #         is used.  I haven't been able to find out why.  It has 10
+  #         Selenocysteine seqedits that looks correct.
+  #         /Andreas (release 59)
+  my @seqeds = sort { $b->{'start'} <=> $a->{'start'} } @seqeds;