[Biopython-dev] Genbank structured comments

[Brian Osborne]

Peter,

Another question, maybe the last one: what do we do what the “header” and “footer” strings, things like “FluData”, "GISAID_EpiFlu(TM)Data”, and “Assembly-Data”?

They could also be keys in the dict, of course. Values are ‘’?

Thanks again,

Brian O.


> On Sep 10, 2015, at 1:25 AM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 11:37 PM, Brian Osborne <bosborne11 at verizon.net> wrote:
>> Chris,
>> 
>> This is the documentation I’m familiar with, but there may be more:
>> 
>> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/structuredcomment
>> 
>> Peter, I can definitely separate these using ‘comment’ and
>> ‘structured_comment’ keys in the record.annotations dict.
>> 
>> If there’s no structured comment in the Genbank file, would
>> there simply be an empty dict in the SeqRecord?
>> 
>> E.g.
>> 
>>>>> record.annotations[‘structured_comment']
>> {}
> 
> That makes sense - equally no entry in the annotation dictionary
> would be reasonable.
> 
> Peter