[BioPython] Vector NTI file import

[Peter Wilkinson]

Hi there,

   .... Since I used to work for the company who created Vector NTI.

The Vector NTI format is an adulteration of the Genbank format.

The format is simple: Genbank + additional data in COMMENT TAG.

Vector NTI stores up additional data associated with your sequence in 
flat-files in the back end. In order to keep it in the 'Genbank' format, it 
takes the additional data stored in Vector NTI and the stores name/value 
pair combinations inside a Genank COMMENT tag when it exports a Genbank 
format and some serialization information that is stored up in NTI (NTI 
proprietary serialization format ...). You will immediately see how this 
works if you export a Genbank file from Vector NTI. So if you had done some 
annotations of some kind, or primers or whatever that is where you would 
find them.


This was done in order to make sure an exported Vector NTI Genbank format 
was compatible with other software that recognises the Genbank format, 
whiles retaining information that was added within NTI.

For me, if you mess with the output formatting, its no longer officially a 
Genbank format but a Vector NTI's format ... but that is a philosophical 
debate.

Feel free to contact me, send my a sample output, I have not worked with 
NTI for a while ... but it will all come back to me.

Peter






At 11:44 AM 19/08/2005, Jerome PANSANEL wrote:
>Hi
>
>Le Vendredi 19 Août 2005 11:39, vous avez écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am definitely. Interested I mean. How do you plane to work on the NTI
> > file format? I have had a look to it and it seems particularly complex.
> > What kind of support do you have in mind?
>
>I think about importing data. vector NTI seems to easely import genbank file,
>so it is not necessary to export this type of file, it isn't ?
>
>Jerome
>
> > Cheers
> >
> > Fred
> >
> > Le vendredi 19 Août 2005 09:41, Jerome PANSANEL a écrit :
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I would like to write some support for Vector NTI file (derived from
> > > GenBank format) for biopython. Is already someone working on it ?
> > > Is someone interested for debugging ?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Jerome Pansanel
> > >
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