Merge pull request #247 from keithj/devel

Performance improvements for Sequenom metadata updates
Merge pull request #248 from keithj/devel

Separated updates of manual QC metadata from warehouse metadata
Updated manifest
Merge pull request #249 from keithj/devel

Zone names should be absolute
Added the feature of reading file or plate names from STDIN. This
makes publish_infinium_file_list.pl redundant.
Use git describe --dirty --always

Use same version checking regexp for both Perl and Ruby.