[Biopython] Bio.Sequencing.Ace

Peter biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk
Mon Jun 29 07:26:02 UTC 2009


On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:19 AM, David
Winter<winda002 at student.otago.ac.nz> wrote:
> Quoting Peter <biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk>:
>>
>> There top level properties are simple enough - but I find drilling
>> down into the reads a bit more tricky. In general the Ace parser is
>> a bit non-obvious without knowing the Ace format. Having some
>> __str__ and __repr__ methods defined on the objects returned
>> would be very nice - I may get time to work on this later this year.
>> Anyone else interested in this drop us an email.
>>
>> Peter
>
> I had a scrawled diagram of the contig class next to me when I was using
> it more frequently - it was easy enough to reproduce digitally
>
> http://biopython.org/wiki/Ace_contig_class
>
> Hopefully it helps make sese of where all the data is. I've added a couple
> of very brief examples there for now - will expand it when I get a chance.
>
> David

This could get turned in docstring/doctest for the Ace parser :)

Peter



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