[BioPython] GO package

Jeffrey Chang jchang@smi.stanford.edu
Mon, 31 Dec 2001 00:11:40 -0800


On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 01:12:34PM -0500, Lei Zhou wrote:
> I am relatively new to Python, but already feel a little addicted to 
> it.  Does anyone know of any effort here  to develop a parser / wrapper 
> package for GeneOntology database?  

No, not in Python.  I think Chris Mungall is working on one for Perl,
though.

> We have been writing ad hoc scripts on GO dataset for analyzing
> array data and cross genome comparison.  Would be interested to
> participate in developing efforts in this area.

There's some general sequence analysis code in biopython, but we don't
have code to work with array data specifically; there is some general
clustering and classification stuff.

Jeff