[Biopython] better way to reverse complement?

Cedar McKay cmckay at u.washington.edu
Wed Jun 24 18:36:58 EDT 2009


Is there a more efficient way to write reverse complemented records to  
file than I use?

I'm doing:

record = SeqRecord(record.seq.reverse_complement(), record.name)
out_handle.write(record.format('fasta'))


Is there a way to write the record directly, while specifying that we  
want the reverse complement version? Would it be useful to allow  
methods of a record or sequence object to be applied during writing?  
Making a whole new record just because we want to write a reverse  
complement seems cumbersome.


Thanks,
Cedar



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