[Biopython-dev] Tutorial: GenomeDiagram problem

Peter Cock p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com
Mon May 19 13:37:13 UTC 2014


On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Tiago Antao <tra at popgen.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to produce documentation in ipython notebook as previously
> discussed. I am currently trying to create a notebook with
> GenomeDiagram (should look cool!)
>
> I have found a simple problem (not simple for me, though):
>
> http://biopython.org/DIST/docs/tutorial/Tutorial.html#sec335
>
> On the feature captions example there is no code to actually generate
> the picture that is there.
>
> I tried:
> gdd.draw(format='linear', pagesize=(15*cm,4*cm), fragments=1,
>          start=0, end=400)
> gdd.write("GD_labels.png", "png")
>
> But with no success (either it just repeats the previous - only green
> - figure). Any ideas would be appreciated here...

Might this be something silly with reused filenames? How does
ipython know to look at the PNG just generated?

Peter



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