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+MySQL-python==1.2.4
+SimpleTAL==4.3
+argparse==1.2.1
+biopython==1.63b
+configobj==4.7.2
+distribute==0.7.3
+lockfile==0.9.1
+lxml==3.2.4
+nose==1.3.0
+pyparsing==2.0.1
+python-daemon==1.6
+python-magic==0.4.6
+pytz==2013.8
+requests==2.0.1
+simplejson==3.3.1
+spyne==2.10.9
+suds==0.4
+web.py==0.37
+wsgiref==0.1.2
+xlrd==0.9.2