[Biopython] Could Bio.SeqIO write EMBL file?

Peter biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk
Tue Jan 12 10:27:47 UTC 2010


On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Anne Pajon <ap12 at sanger.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> Just tested now.
>
> It worked fine. Thanks a lot.

Great.

> Here is the diff between the EMBL output from Bio.SeqIO and the genbank
> output from Bio.SeqIO converted with the EMBOSS tool to an EMBL file:
>
> ...
>
> The main differences are on line breaks.

I hadn't yet done a comparison against EMBOSS (what version do you
have), but yes, it looks like I am wrapping the feature tables using a
shorter line length - we should check that, and it would be easy to
adjust in Bio/SeqIO/InsdcIO.py

Regarding the SQ line, that was on my "TODO" list. Including the
sequence length and base counts shouldn't hard at all. If you want
to work on that it should just be a few lines in Bio/SeqIO/InsdcIO.py

Right now however, further testing of features would be my first
priority. See also:
http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/open-bio-l/2010-January/000604.html

There are other things still to do (e.g. missing fields on the ID line,
dates, and references).

Peter



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