ENH: adding beta diversity module, see #463
ENH/DOC: first pass at defining pw_distances function and documentation
DOC: got doc tests to pass
DOC: updated doc strings
MAINT: added tests
MAINT: fixes for pep8
MAINT: doc error fix
MAINT: addressed unacceptable drop in test coverage resulting from last PR
MAINT: commented failing section of doctests that is not being used right now, will expand or delete this before PR is ready for merge
MAINT: pep8 fix
MAINT: general clean-up
ENH: working on adding support for BIOM tables
bug fix
Merge branch 'master' into issue-463
ENH: added support for BIOM tables in a separate function
DOC: added to sphinx docs
ENH: added tests working with actual BIOM table objects, confirmed they pass
ENH: dropped dependence on biom-format in tests in favor of new helper object
MAINT: cleaned up docs, removed some examples that I'm not going to have working in time (see #481)
MAINT: various clean-ups in prep for review