[BioPython] SwissProt record

Jeffrey Chang jeffrey_chang at stanfordalumni.org
Wed Feb 4 07:32:27 EST 2004


Oops, now that I look further, SWISS-PROT defines the primary accession 
number is the first one.  So just use the first one.  Sorry about the 
confusion.

jeff




On Feb 4, 2004, at 7:17 AM, Jeffrey Chang wrote:

> As far as I know, SWISS-PROT doesn't have a notion of primary 
> accession number.  However, the order of the accession numbers in the 
> Record is the same as the order in the original SWISS-PROT record.
>
> Jeff
>
>
> On Feb 4, 2004, at 3:55 AM, wfleuren at cmbi.kun.nl wrote:
>
>> using Biopython, from a Swiss-prot record, you can parse accession
>> numbers, by record.accessions, which will return a list of accession
>> numbers. My question, the first accession number in this list is 
>> always
>> the primary accession number?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Wilco.
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