[Biopython] Retrieving fasta seqs

Alvaro F Pena Perea alvin at pasteur.edu.uy
Tue Feb 2 17:05:51 UTC 2010


I'm a newbie in python, thank you very much for your helpful suggestion.
I didn't have any problem with the files and I could retrieve the sequences.
Thanks again

Álvaro


2010/2/2 Peter <biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk>

> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Kevin Lam <aboulia at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yes I got a "memory error" when the job died.
> > The uncompressed ids file is about 680 mb. Perhaps storing in set will
> > increase the file space but
> > I assumed that it would still fit comfortably in 4gb of ram even if its a
> > 32bit limit.
> > its a mystery I am dying to solve if I have more time.
> >
> > I do not have the code right now will post up soon but it is almost the
> same
> > as the list method
>
> Kevin - If you can show us the script and the traceback it would be
> very helpful. This would tell us where the memory failure is (e.g.
> loading the list of IDs).
>
> Alvaro - Don't worry for your example, Kevin is trying to work on
> some very very big files (this is a continuation of an earlier
> discussion on the mailing list).
>
> Peter
>




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