[BioPython] SeqRecord - understanding of id, name and description arguments

Jan Kosinski kosa at genesilico.pl
Thu Jan 11 11:42:57 UTC 2007


Hi,

I would like to ask for the intended meaning for SeqRecord  "id", "name" 
and "description" arguments.

In the "id" we put accession numbers (Entrez GI numbers, swiss-prot 
accession numbers etc)

In the "description" - any description, could be a name or more information

And what about the "name" ?

When I am reading fasta sequences with SeqIO where I should put the 
sequence name which I understand as everything which comes after ">" to 
the end of the line?

Janek



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