List based backend for sample data

This release changes the database backend to use a list-based structure instead of the sorted set structure. We're bumping the minor version because this modifies how the data representation.

Release tag for Zenodo DOI

Merge pull request #49 from josenavas/version

Changing version number

Qiita's September 27th, 2017 Release

This tag marks the version of RedBiom deployed in the main Qiita server or September 27th, 2017

Alpha release

We're excited to announce the first release of redbiom with default support to query the public facing studies housed in Qiita, which is in excess of 100,000 samples!

As of this release, it is possible to:

• find samples by metadata searches (including restriction clauses like where ph < 7)
• find metadata categories of interest
• find features by taxonomy
• fetch sample data
• fetch sample metadata
• summarize samples over a metadata category

...and more. The project is still rough around the edges. Much of the functionality exposed right now are "building blocks" where users need to pipe together commands. We're excited to see how the uses cases evolve, and as they become more clear we will build in explicit commands for desired sets of operations -- an example is redbiom summarize table.

We're denoting this release as alpha because we're still exploring the data model, adding in new types of queries, improving clarity on results, and because this tool has not seen wide use yet.