[BioPython] Any programming project?

[William Park]

Greetings,

1. Does anyone have any tasks or projects that I can tackle on volunteer
basis?  I need more "experience" in this Bioinformatics area. :-)

The only thing that I've done is to write scripts to download 160 files
of Nucleotide and Protein sequences (in FASTA format) from GenBank.
This came out of request from a Usenet poster who, an undergrad, were
downloading 160 x 2 files of HIV1 from
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PMGifs/Genomes/35268.html
    (click "160" on HIV1 line)
for his Prof.  He got tired of manual clicking.

2. I am aware of FASTA format.  Are there other data formats?  Perhaps,
converting from one format to another may be the best way to get my
feet wet.

	Yours truly,
-- 
William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
8 CPU cluster, NAS, (Slackware) Linux, Python, LaTeX, Vim, Mutt, Tin