[Biopython] BioPython wrapper for UNAFOLD and NUPACK

David Winter winda002 at student.otago.ac.nz
Wed Jun 17 22:32:42 UTC 2009


Quoting "Rouilly, Vincent" <vincent.rouilly03 at imperial.ac.uk>:

> Also, has anyone looked at writing a BioPython wrapper for DNA/RNA
> folding/hybridization packages such as:
> UNAFOLD: http://mfold.bioinfo.rpi.edu/
> NUPACK: http://nupack.org/
>
> I couldn't find anything from the mailing list archives. Sorry, if I
> have missed it.
>
> If not, I would be interested to give it a go, and I would welcome any
> advice.
> Would it be a good start to look at the Primer3 wrapper ?

Hi Vincent,
before you go too far down the path of making a Primer3 wrapper you might
want to check out the existing wrapper for the emboss version (Eprimer3 in
the Bio.Emboss.Applications module) - it can do almost everything the
original can

Cheers,
David





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