[BioPython] ASN.1 parser

[Peter Slickers]

Cath Lawrence wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday, May 8, 2002, at 01:28 AM, Karl Schmid wrote:
> > I was wondering whether anybody has written a parser or a class for
> > dealing with gff-formatted annotation data.
> 
> Sorry, no. I wrote a java one once, but that was for the late
> (lamented?) BioNavigator.
> 
> While we're asking - does anyone have an ASN.1 parser?
> 
> A parser repository or link page might be a handy addition to the
> BioPython site - along the lines of "script central".
> 
> cheers
> Cath
> Cath Lawrence,                       Cath.Lawrence@anu.edu.au
> Scientific Programmer,  Centre for Bioinformation Science,
> John Curtin School of Medical Research
> Australian National University,  Canberra ACT 0200
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The NCBI toolkit provides several command line programs
for converting ASN files:

    asntool
    asn2fast
    asn2ff
    tbl2asn 


For example, asn2fast converts ASN files to FASTA files.
I would be nice to have a python wrapper to run these
tools.



Peter
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