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-sphinx
-sphinx_rtd_theme
-numpydoc
-pytest>=2.5.2
-pytest-cov>=1.6
-pytest-mpl>=0.8
-coverage>=4
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-termcolor
-colorlog
-progressbar2 >= 3.18.0
-ncbi_genome_download >= 0.3.3
-numpy>=1.11
-scipy
-matplotlib>=2.0.0
-biopython>=1.60  # only used for tree subcommand with fastme and quicktree... Comment this line if you do not want to use it